A House of Dynamite
First screened in October 2025
Director: Kathryn Bigelow. Cast: Rebecca Ferguson, Tracy Letts, Gabriel Basso, Idris Elba, Jared Harris, Jason Clarke, Malachi Beasley, Anthony Ramos, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Chance Kelly, Enid Graham, J.W. Cortes, Sam Vartholomeos, Francesca Carpanini, Neal Bledsoe, Nicholas Monterosso, Brian Tee, Willa Fitzgerald, Moses Ingram, Greta Lee, Brittany O'Grady, Kyle Allen, Kaitlyn Dever, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jonah Hauer-King. Screenplay: Noah Oppenheim.
In Brief:
Billion-dollar systems easily fail, especially as operated by fallible people with no time to think. Powerful.
VOR:④
Tamer style than past Bigelow efforts, but would flamboyance serve it? Uncomfortably lucid about fault lines in political structures and personal resolve.