The Hurt Locker
A new sergeant finds himself in the position of the captain of bomb detonating team, but this is a very unfortunate time as both teams are having their own personal conflicts.
23 September 1978, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
23 April 1977, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA
11 October 1953, Hamilton, Massachusetts, USA
22 April 1980, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
3 August 1979, Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada
1972 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
27 September 1983, Amman, Jordan
3 November 1973, Pequannock, New Jersey, USA
7 January 1971, Modesto, California, USA
13 May 1975, Toms River, New Jersey, USA
7 July 1971, New York City, New York, USA
1 January 1977, Southwark, London, England, UK
February 25, 2015
One of the best-made films of 2009.
August 29, 2009
Bigelow's film combines an expert management of tension with a sensitive and journalistic attention to detail: she has one eye on the truth and the other on the multiplex.
July 24, 2009
Like her protagonist, Bigelow is both a meticulous technician and a ballsy showoff. And, like him, she has ice water in her veins.
February 25, 2015
There is much that is fiercely modest about its ambitions. And, for a war film, it is often disconcertingly quiet.
February 23, 2016
We may not like Staff Sgt. James all that much, but those of us who get our adrenaline fixes at the movies can recognize a bit of ourselves in him.
November 24, 2011
Director Kathryn Bigelow, doing her run-'n'-gun best, doesn't mine traditional suspense so much as impart a queasy feeling of monotony.
July 30, 2009
One of the best movies of the year, with a star-making performance from Jeremy Renner.
February 16, 2016
More than anything, The Hurt Locker is a high-wire study of men at work, its lack of overt politics replaced by a revelatory central performance.
February 25, 2015
An important, intense, nail-biting experience -- really quite unforgettable.
July 24, 2009
The question isn't how do you live with the buzz of looming death; it's how do you live without it? No answers are offered, or even suggested.
February 25, 2015
This is a harrowing picture, made all the more disturbing because it's based in a war that is being waged right now.
July 24, 2009
Like every war before it, the U.S. invasion of Iraq has generated its share of movies. But The Hurt Locker is the first of them that can properly be called a masterpiece.
