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.
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.
Tom Long
Detroit News
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.
