Valoraciones de La noche más oscura
iHaveNet.comTo consider what director Kathryn Bigelow has accomplished in "Zero Dark Thirty," imagine the events depicted by the story if they'd been given the "Argo" treatment.
Fresno Bee"Zero Dark Thirty" (a military term that means 30 minutes past midnight), the new film from Oscar-wining director Kathryn Bigelow, offers a detailed -- very detailed -- accounting of the years the CIA spent following every tiny lead in their quest to find
Reel ViewsZero Dark Thirty is a compelling contemporary thriller with the added benefit of also being an engrossing character study. Like Argo, it interweaves elements of the historical record with fictional embellishments and speculation to create a...
Fan The FireThe pre-release build-up to Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow’s follow-up to Oscar-winning thriller The Hurt Locker, has, particularly in the American media, been laden with controversy, but in actual fact there is little controversial about the film...
Cinema CrazedI love the storytelling and directorial subtleties of Kathryn Bigelow in her concerted effort to explore the folly of war and violence in the name of patriotism. In the end of the film Maya stands in the belly of a massive jet that is ready to carry...
JoBlo's Movie EmporiumThere is a disquieting storm surrounding the new film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Kathryn Bigelow (THE HURT LOCKER) explores the ten year search for the man held responsible for the devastating tragedy that took place at the World Trade Center...
Aisle SeatZero Dark Thirty opens with two full minutes of 911 calls made on September 11 playing over a black screen. I'd never heard some of these recordings before, and they're chilling. Beginning the film in such a manner accomplishes two things: it...
RedEyeBen Affleck’s widely praised Oscar contender is plenty entertaining, but its sense of place and investigative detail don’t come within miles of the immersive power of “Zero Dark Thirty,” director Kathryn Bigelow’s and her “Hurt Locker” writer...
MediaMikesThe last time director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal teamed up they created a little film called “The Hurt Locker,” a movie that went on to not only win the Best Picture Academy Award but Oscars for both Boal and Bigelow, making her the...
Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)Zero Dark Thirty is a different kind of action movie, a different kind of drama. It has the realism of a documentary and intimacy of cinéma vérité, a form of documentary that draws directly from life.
Movies.comBut you probably knew that already. No matter how little actual useful information it yielded, the United States set aside international laws and tortured detained terror suspects in the process of tracking down Osama bin Laden.
Sacramento News & ReviewUnavoidably the movie of the year, Kathryn Bigelow’s controversial quasi-journalistic thriller, dramatized from original reporting by screenwriter Mark Boal, surveys the decade-long quest to bring down Osama bin Laden.
Orlando WeeklyKathryn Bigelow's cinematic version of the U.S. military's absurdly protracted 10-year hunt for Osama bin Laden is not exactly what you might expect. Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker), Bigelow's frequent screenwriter-collaborator, crafts the film as...
LarsenOnFilmThat's the crucial question for this sprawling espionage film, which dramatizes the hunt for Osama bin Laden from the days following the 9/11 attacks to the bullets that left him dead on May 2, 2011.
Mark Reviews MoviesFor now, here is the defining film about whatever the so-called "War on Terror" is. Zero Dark Thirty tells the story of the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden in intricate detail, from the confounding early years of the "enhanced interrogation"...
Christian Science MonitorKathryn Bigelow’s troubling, infuriating “Zero Dark Thirty” is about Maya (Jessica Chastain), a CIA agent whose obsessive single-mindedness eventually lands Osama bin Laden in a body bag. Like Ahab, she is fixated on her prey to the exclusion of all else.
Cole SmitheyKathryn Bigelow’s cinematic version of the U.S. military’s absurdly protracted ten-year hunt for Osama bin Laden is not what you would expect. Bigelow’s frequent screenwriter collaborator, and former war reporter, Mark Boal (“The Hurt Locker”) crafts...
New York PostAny smart woman who’s ever coped with a condescending male boss will relate to Kathryn Bigelow’s riveting thriller “Zero Dark Thirty,’’ — even if it takes place at a workplace where torture is routine and the heroine’s spent a decade targeting Osama...
ComingSoon.netThere are many questions and just as many expectations about director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter/producer Mark Boal's follow-up to the Oscar-winning "The Hurt Locker," possibly too many to answer in a review without spoiling the experience.
filmjabberOsama bin Laden meets his match in Zero Dark Thirty, a detailed and mesmerizing account of the 10-year manhunt for the al Qaeda leader. Director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal, in their follow-up to 2008's Academy Award-winning The Hurt...
Susan Granger Entertainment CommentariesOscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow traces the hunt for Osama Bin Laden in this satisfying revenge thriller. Collaborating again with investigative journalist/screenwriter Mark Boal, Bigelow not only matches but exceeds the tension and suspense she...
CinemaBlend.comThe scene you may be expecting from Zero Dark Thirty comes at the very end of the nearly three-hour film, as director Kathryn Bigelow precisely recreated the raid on the house in Pakistan that led to the Navy SEAL team assassinating Osama bin Laden.
Monsters and CriticsKathryn Bigelow’s heroic efforts to get this film made have paid off – Zero Dark Thirty is a compelling, nerve wracking and utterly necessary three hour journey into the darkness of America’s war of terror.
The A.V. ClubBefore Zero Dark Thirty had so much as a title—and even once it was made, but before many had seen it—both sides of the political spectrum ignited with speculation over how The Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal would frame the...
HollywoodChicago.comKathryn Bigelow opens her stunning “Zero Dark Thirty” with a date and a series of voice mail recordings. The date is, of course, September 11, 2001 and the recordings are the ghosts of the people who died that day, perfectly setting the stakes for the...
Slant MagazineThe song that's blasting when two CIA operatives (Jason Clarke and Jessica Chastain) enter a secret prison black site in Pakistan to roust a battered, sleep-deprived detainee (Reda Kateb) is "Pavlov's Dogs" by New Jersey hardcore band Rorschach—a song...
Entertainment WeeklyOnce in a long while, a fresh-from-the-headlines movie — like All the President's Men or United 93 — fuses journalism, procedural high drama, and the oxygenated atmosphere of a thriller into a new version of history written with lightning.
ABC Radio (Australia)You don't have to watch Zero Dark Thirty for long to realise what all the controversy is about. The opening scene shows a CIA agent (Australian actor Jason Clarke) torturing an Al Qaeda suspect.
canada.com“Zero dark thirty” is military jargon for the darkest time of night: 12:30 a.m. when, on May 2, 2011, U.S. forces stormed the Pakistan compound of Osama bin Laden and assassinated him. “Geronimo,” one of them reported from the raid. “For God and country.
IBNLiveShooting the film with a documentary-like urgency, Bigelow goes for a tone that's real and believable. Along with screenwriter Mark Boal, she navigates a landscape far tougher than their Oscar-winning last film The Hurt Locker.
India TodayKathryn Bigelow's Oscar-contender casts Jessica Chastain as CIA operative Maya, self-described "motherf***** who found the place" where Osama bin Laden was hiding. The usually softspoken Maya makes that brazen declaration while introducing herself to...
EmpireGripping throughout, with an impressive central performance, this is like a Dogme 95 redo of a Chuck Norris film — by heroic effort, the good guys find and kill a bad guy. How you feel about that is something Bigelow leaves you to decide.
Express.co.ukJUST two years after the death of Osama Bin Laden comes Zero Dark Thirty, the story of the decade long-hunt for the world’s most wanted man and the extraordinary challenges involved in locating and killing him.
QNetwork EntertainmentThe fact that commentators, pundits, and politicians on both sides of the political spectrum are condemning Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow’s gripping hunt-for-Osama bin Laden procedural, is a sure sign that she and journalist-turned-screenwriter...
The Sydney Morning HeraldIn this remarkable invocation of the pursuit and killing of Osama bin Laden, director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal show you everything and tell you nothing. As the movie crosses a violent decade, it gains fearsome momentum, but never...
Boston PhoenixZero Dark Thirty begins in terror and ends in despair. The first image is a black screen with the date "September 11, 2001," and a background sound of panicked, doomed voices on cell phones. The last shot is of one person in tears.
Shadows on the WallZero Dark Thirty It's difficult to tell whether this film is celebrating or criticising 10 years of illegal American activity abroad. Certainly the characters are all true believers, only occasionally worrying whether their methods cross a line.
Time Out LondonIn 20 years time, when we look back at the ‘War on Terror’, I wonder if we’ll half-remember it through the filter of two war movies by director Kathryn Bigelow and reporter-turned-screenwriter Mark Boal? Their 2009 Oscar-winner ‘The Hurt Locker’...