Director Kathryn Bigelow is certainly not shy of exploring darker subject matters, nor indeed darker moments in history. Rising to fame with the critically acclaimed ‘Hurt Locker’, a powerful war drama exploring a bomb squad during the Iraq War. The film won 6 Oscars and put both Bigelow and its star Jeremey Renner on the map. Bigelow followed this success with ‘Zero Dark Thirty’, a captivating and intense depiction of the decade long hunt for Osama Bin Laden, and although this film may not have won quite as many awards as its predecessor, with hindsight it certainly feels a more accurate representation of Bigelow’s directorial style.
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