In May 2011, Navy SEALs launch a nighttime strike, killing bin Laden in his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
25 March 1977, Caracas, Venezuela
15 July 1981, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
10 March 1957, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
5 March 1962, Gonesse, Val-d'Oise, France
23 February 1975, Auckland, New Zealand
8 March 1983, San Antonio, Texas, USA
24 March 1977, Sacramento, California, USA
5 August 1963, London, England, UK
17 September 1965, Buffalo, New York, USA
15 October 1981, London, England, UK
17 June 1976, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, England, UK
1947, Isfahan, Iran
July 14, 2016
Chastain dominates the screen, her character evolving from nervous but willing to domineering and demanding.
January 15, 2013
This is an instant classic.
January 11, 2013
Chastain makes Maya as vivid as a bloodshot eye. Her porcelain skin, delicate features and feminine attire belie the steel within.
June 13, 2013
If you like World War II films, you'll enjoy this.
January 11, 2013
No doubt Zero Dark Thirty serves a function by airing America's dirty laundry about detainee and torture programs, but in its wake, there's a crying need for a compassionate Coming Home to counter its brutal Deer Hunter.
April 17, 2016
Minimalism is a valid creative choice, but in this case, it renders an extraordinary story very ordinary. And the real-life heroes, flaws and all, were anything but.
April 13, 2016
As polished as a gun barrel, and about as complicated.
May 10, 2016
There's hardly a dull moment in Zero Dark Thirty. Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar hopeful... is a skin-tight, effective procedural with a maddening focus on the CIA's decade-long manhunt of the elusive bin Laden.
June 21, 2016
A great American film: complicated, nuanced, searching, piercing, difficult - and yet thrilling and satisfying all the same.
April 06, 2016
As grueling as parts of it are, though, you may not love it. You may not even like it. But, regardless of your politics, you're all but guaranteed to appreciate it.
February 05, 2013
What's striking is the absence of triumphalism -- Bigelow doesn't shy away from showing the victims shot down in cold blood in the compound -- and we come away with the overwhelming sense that this has been a grim, dark episode in our history.
January 11, 2013
While "Zero Dark Thirty" may offer political and moral arguing points aplenty, as well as vicarious thrills,as a film it's simply too much of a passable thing.
