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ZERO DARK THIRTY
September 18, 2013  | By David Bianculli

Starz!, 7:20 p.m. ET

 

This 2012 movie is bookended by segments that struck some as controversial – the aggressive interrogation of a prisoner at the start, and the invasion of Osama bin Laden’s compound at the climax. But those scenes, and every one in between, propel this decade-long detective story forward, without any false beats or pandering over-explaining. Jessica Chastain stars, and is excellent – but she’s working with an excellent director (Kathryn Bigelow), from a script by a very smart writer-reporter (Mark Boal).

 
 
 
 
 
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