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A House of Dynamite

A House of Dynamite

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A House of Dynamite is a 2025 political thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow, her first feature since 2017's Detroit, working from a screenplay by former NBC News president Noah Oppenheim. Distributed by Netflix after a limited theatrical run, it applies Bigelow's signature procedural intensity to the most unthinkable of scenarios: the minutes after a single, unattributed intercontinental ballistic missile is detected heading for the United States.

The film fractures those tense minutes across multiple vantage points, replaying the same crisis from different rooms of power and following the civilian and military officials who must decide how to respond without knowing who fired or why. Idris Elba plays the president forced toward an impossible choice, with Rebecca Ferguson as a White House Situation Room officer and an ensemble that includes Gabriel Basso, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Moses Ingram, Greta Lee, and Jason Clarke. Bigelow stages the emergency less as spectacle than as a study of institutions and human beings straining under a clock that never stops.

Premiering in competition at the Venice Film Festival before reaching Netflix, the film drew strong reviews for its nerve-shredding tension and its refusal of easy catharsis, earning awards-season attention for its editing. Critics hailed it as a return to form for one of America's most exacting filmmakers, a nuclear-age nightmare told with clinical urgency. A House of Dynamite is streaming on Netflix.

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