ZERO DARK THIRTY (2012)

Cast

Plot

Kathryn Bigelow's follow-up to her award-winning drama The Hurt Locker once again uses the War on Terror to examine her country's psyche, this timecentring onMaya (Jessica Chastain), a C.I.A. analyst who becomes increasingly fixated on leading theservice's hunt for Osama Bin Laden. Less a bombastic military drama than a swift-paced procedural a la Michael Mann,Bigelow onceagainhas produced a thrilling, penetratingstudy of the nature of contemporary American obsession.