A House of Dynamite (2025)
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. Starring Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson and Jared Harris.
I like to think that the general critical consensus of a film is wrong from time to time. I’m a stalwart defender of Robin Hood (Ridley Scott), The Covenant (Guy Ritchie), and more recently The Return (Pasolini). So with Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite, I was determined that this would be another such case as I settled in to watch it. The premise was so fascinating that I threw it on at the first opportunity, and I was immediately swept along as it launched into its thrilling scenario. The start of a nuclear war is something that haunts our collective consciousness, something Kubrick tackled so deftly in Dr. Strangelove (and something Villeneuve is reportedly set to explore in his upcoming adaptation of Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War). I was genuinely excited to see another filmmaker of such acclaim take on the idea.
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