Some praised realistic elements like the depiction of the White House situation room. But others said parts of the plot ...

Kathryn Bigelow is justly hailed as a great action filmmaker. She’s less appreciated for her skills as a portraitist, and specifically a portraitist of highly intelligent people doing extraordinarily ...

The people who pushed the narratives of national reconciliation in the decades after Reconstruction weren’t Southerners. It was a bunch of New Jersey academics at Princeton. Woodrow Wilson, although ...

The most entertaining movie about mass destruction since Dr Strangelove - 4/5 Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Jared Harris and ...

Charles Chaplin, for whom silence used to be golden, is furiously loquacious in “Limelight,” and while the ideas he is expounding are meritorious (he is in favor of charity and love), he pours them ...

The Museum of Contemporary Art will present Pussy Riot co-founder Nadya Tolokonnikova’s “Police State,” November 25-30 in the ...

It has been too long. Too long since the innocent children of America were traumatized by TV shows and movies that dramatized ...

The most terrifying thing about nuclear weapons isn’t the warheads, but how quiet we as a society have become about them. The Cold War-era fear of total annihilation has morphed into a dangerous ...

A director whose work veers toward the muscular and adrenaline-soaked, Bigelow has nonetheless always made thoughtful films of the moment. An interesting, provocative filmmaker whose career has always ...

Back with her first movie in nearly a decade, Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite” is an unconventional nuclear threat thriller informed by its attention to detail. The set-up is simple – and ...

How much do you know about nuclear warfare? Sitting on a New York City hotel balcony with Kathryn Bigelow, I realize she has just taught me pretty much everything I know on the subject. Her latest ...

In Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite,” when a mysterious missile launches from the Pacific and begins bearing down on the Midwest, the biggest threat initially at the White House is a pile of ...