Kathryn Bigelow’s tense, muscular Iraq war film, written by embedded journalist Mark Boal, is hardly fawning in its depiction of a U.S. soldier who uses the war as an excuse to abandon his family and avoid domestic life. It focuses on a military bomb disposal unit run by Sgt. James (an impressive Jeremy Renner), who thrives on danger, unlike the careful Sgt. Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) and a soldier (Brian Geraghty) stuck between the two father figures. (Read more…)
Now playing at the River East and Century Centre in Chicago, and the Evanston CineArts 6.