A House of Dynamite

"Immaculately constructed."

"Bigelow and her crew expertly take you to the brink."

"Bigelow’s work here is superb."

"A tremendously frustrating exercise in bait-and-switch white-knuckleism."

"Elba gives a head-scratchingly off-key performance."

"Bigelow’s boldest and most assured film yet."

"A white knuckle ride of a movie."

"Every moment pops."

"Just a wallow in despair and self-importance."

"A tightly wound dynamo."

"Bigelow’s real-time nuclear thriller will take your stress levels to DEFCON 1."

"Bigelow is back with a bang."

"The repetitive hook also means some of this business frankly gets a little tedious."

"As epic in scope as a story can be that takes place over a single half hour."

"Purely as a feat of adrenaline-pumping editing and cinematography, the movie is a knockout."

"Easy to watch, it’s wired to be exciting, with a showy hot-button relevance."

"Horrifically gripping and hopeless nuclear missile thriller."

"Realistic gritty direction."

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

"An extraordinarily accomplished feel-bad thriller."

"Delivers a carefully calibrated explosion of geopolitical anxiety."

"Seemingly endless number of moving parts, cut with diamond precision."

"Superbly evokes the furnace of decision-making that such an agonising dilemma might ignite."

"Performances are excellent."

"Absurdly riveting thriller."