A House of Dynamite - Reviews

...a snapshot of political calamity built around a ticking clock that keeps resetting.

...may be scarier than any horror movie and could legitimately keep you awake at night.

There is a pertinent and distressing question that Bigelow’s ticking clock thriller wants the viewer to ask. If the United States lost a city in a single, violent instant, what would happen next?

...drops a scary yet impotent stockpile of duds...

...might not tell us anything particularly new (surely we all know that nuclear weapons are terrifying), but it’s delivered so deftly, it’s difficult to care. If only all cautionary tales could be this brilliantly entertaining.

Superb ensemble performances, and even a tiny bit of humour in the apocalypse.

...is a fiction. It’s also a warning. The tagline for the movie on the posters out here is “Not if. When.”

...a terrifying, white-knuckle comeback.

Here is a movie that will ruin your day. You’re welcome.

...pinpoints a terrifying tragedy lurking unspoken in today’s world order: whether citizens place their trust in people or procedures, neither can be counted on to prevent mass destruction.

Kathryn Bigelow's terrifying nuclear thriller is among her very best.

The most entertaining movie about mass destruction since Dr Strangelove.

...a razor-sharp thriller of whats, wheres and hows, which leaves its audience wrestling with one of the great all-time whys.

The film's official tagline sums it up succinctly: "Not if. When."