The Hurt Locker

An adrenaline-addicted soldier (Jeremy Renner) leads a bomb disposal squad through the chaos of Iraq in a philosophical thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow (Point Break). With Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pearce, Anthony Mackie and Brian Geraghty; Mark Boal (In the Valley of Elah) wrote the original screenplay.

An Oscar winner for Best Picture, Director, Editing, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing and Original Screenplay.

Bigelow is the winner of the Directors’ Guild of America Best Feature Film prize.

Winner of the Writers Guild of America prize for Best Original Screenplay.

Winner of eight British Academy Awards, including Best Film, Director and Screenplay.

A Golden Globe nominee for Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Director and Best Screenplay.

“Ferociously suspenseful...Kathryn Bigelow turns the discipline of action filmmaking into a kind of visceral visual poetry.” (A.O. Scott, New York Times)

“The Hurt Locker is a near-perfect movie about men in war, men at work. Through sturdy imagery and violent action, it says that even Hell needs heroes.” (Richard Corliss, Time)

“Bigelow and cinematographer Barry Ackroyd crank up the tension to nail-biting, gut-churning extremes and the mayhem is powerfully visceral. “ (James Adams, Toronto Globe & Mail)

“An intense, action-driven war pic, a muscular, efficient standout that simultaneously conveys the feeling of combat from within as well as what it looks like on the ground.” (Liza Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly)

“The most skillful and emotionally involving picture yet made about the [war in Iraq]...The Hurt Locker is a small classic of tension, bravery, and fear, which will be studied twenty years from now when people want to understand something of what happened to American soldiers in Iraq.” (David Denby, New Yorker)