Recensioni di Metacritic

Bigelow’s ability to take a series of hypotheticals and render them into narrative actuality has never been more pinpoint accurate or merciless.

I watched this film with translucently white knuckles but also that strange climbing nausea that only this topic can create.

Eight years since her last feature, Kathryn Bigelow returns with an unrelenting chokehold thriller so controlled, kinetic and unsettlingly immersive that you stagger out at the end of it wondering if the world will still be intact.

The film has its twists, turns and resets, simultaneously giving the audience more information while also keeping it off balance. It can be riveting and at times repetitive, but it does what it sets out to do: It drops you in the middle of a crisis and it keeps you there.

Bigelow’s explosively entertaining real-time thriller, told from multiple perspectives at various levels of government from situation room deputies to POTUS (Idris Elba) himself, does not mince on hopelessness. Here is a movie that will ruin your day. You’re welcome.

Oppenheim’s script deepens that burgeoning pit of terror with its sequencing of events and information.

More riveting than most thrillers, and more terrifying than most horror films.

There’s no denying what a powerfully rendered tale this is, both impressive in its filmmaking and performances.

Those first 40-odd minutes are unbearably tense. Ferguson is a standout in a strong ensemble cast

The first full run-through of the crisis, in the White House Situation Room, is perhaps a little dry. But as things replay from various angles, the steady build-up of context effectively compounds the tension, and soon we’re every bit as lost as President Elba, desperately searching for clarity in a chain of events that necessarily precludes it.