Drama
Rod Lott
If John Hillcoat is setting out to build a directorial career on downbeat and depressing films, he's doing a fine job. From The Proposition and The Road — especially The Road — and now Lawless, bleakness is his bread and butter.
Friday 24 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: chastain
Lawless
The family that bootlegs together, stays together.
Zero Dark Thirty
Controversy doesn’t lessen the impact of one of 2012’s best films.
Thriller
Phil Bacharach
Don’t trust the audience members.
Trusting them appears to be the cardinal sin of Zero Dark Thirty, a masterful, absorbing film dramatizing the CIA's 10-year hunt for Osama bin Laden. It has been at the center of controversy for its depiction of U.S. intelligence agents using “enhanced interrogation techniques,” otherwise known as torture.
Zero Dark Thirty
The real torture is its incredible tension.
Drama
Phil Bacharach
Don’t trust the viewers.
Trusting them appears to be the cardinal sin of Zero Dark Thirty, a masterful, absorbing film dramatizing the CIA's 10-year hunt for Osama bin Laden. It has been at the center of controversy for its depiction of U.S. intelligence agents using “enhanced interrogation techniques,” otherwise known as torture.
