Detroit (2017)
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States.
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The screenwriter is Mark Boal, who collaborated with Bigelow on “The Hurt Locker” (2008), for which they won Oscars, and on “Zero Dark Thirty” (2012).
It's like the heart-in-your-throat raid from "Zero Dark Thirty" - anything can go down, anyone can go down, at any time.
Bigelow reteams with writer Mark Boal for the third time (previously they did “The Hurt Locker” and “Zero Dark Thirty”).
“Detroit” is directed by Kathryn Bigelow, who re-teams with screenwriter Mark Boal, who wrote both of her most recent and acclaimed films “The Hurt Locker” and “Zero Dark Thirty.”
For a time, Bigelow, whose previous work includes “The Hurt Locker” and “Zero Dark Thirty,” lingers on the growing riots, using a kinetic style to keep audiences locked on the action as we meet the principal characters whose lives are about to intersect with tragic results.
Director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Marc Boal, the team behind two of the best films of this century (The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty), have returned with Detroit, a harrowing drama that’s difficult to watch but nevertheless a significant cinematic achievement.
Unlike Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit set in the same decade, one doesn’t really get the sense of the fear a black person would feel being pulled over by a white cop – particularly in the Deep South.
…much like the protestors in Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit, the BLM activists in Eddington are nothing more than vaguely defined, noisy shadows.
I even enjoyed Detroit a bit more.
I can only watch so many procedural political thrillers before they lose their appeal. And don't even get me started on Detroit.
…it’s Bigelow’s first feature film since her 2017 historical crime drama “Detroit”…
Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow’s first feature since Detroit, her 2017 drama, A House of Dynamite is an alarmingly sobering apocalyptic political thriller written by Noah Oppenheim.
It’s the first film from Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty) since 2017’s unfairly underseen Detroit…
In addition to Zero Dark Thirty, Bigelow has also delivered projects like The Hurt Locker, Detroit, and K-19: The Widowmaker.
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The artistic superstar of this film is Oscar-nominated cinematographer Barry Ackroyd, a prized regular collaborator of Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker and Detroit) and Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips and United 93).