The Hurt Locker
A new sergeant, James is appointed as the captain of bomb detonating squad in a time when both of the teams are having internal disagreements.
3 August 1979, Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada
1972 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
3 November 1973, Pequannock, New Jersey, USA
13 May 1975, Toms River, New Jersey, USA
22 December 1962, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
23 September 1978, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
February 23, 2016
We may not like Staff Sgt. James all that much, but those of us who get our adrenaline fixes at the movies can recognize a bit of ourselves in him.
February 25, 2015
One of the best-made films of 2009.
July 30, 2009
One of the best movies of the year, with a star-making performance from Jeremy Renner.
February 25, 2015
This is a harrowing picture, made all the more disturbing because it's based in a war that is being waged right now.
July 24, 2009
The question isn't how do you live with the buzz of looming death; it's how do you live without it? No answers are offered, or even suggested.
August 29, 2009
Bigelow's film combines an expert management of tension with a sensitive and journalistic attention to detail: she has one eye on the truth and the other on the multiplex.
July 24, 2009
Like her protagonist, Bigelow is both a meticulous technician and a ballsy showoff. And, like him, she has ice water in her veins.
July 24, 2009
Like every war before it, the U.S. invasion of Iraq has generated its share of movies. But The Hurt Locker is the first of them that can properly be called a masterpiece.
February 16, 2016
More than anything, The Hurt Locker is a high-wire study of men at work, its lack of overt politics replaced by a revelatory central performance.
February 25, 2015
An important, intense, nail-biting experience -- really quite unforgettable.
November 24, 2011
Director Kathryn Bigelow, doing her run-'n'-gun best, doesn't mine traditional suspense so much as impart a queasy feeling of monotony.
February 25, 2015
There is much that is fiercely modest about its ambitions. And, for a war film, it is often disconcertingly quiet.
