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Kathryn Bigelow has a signature filmmaking style. Her movies are tense, thrilling dramas exploring some of the toughest situations people find themselves in. From Point Break to The Hurt Locker, Bigelow has cemented herself as one of the most talented directors out there. She has not directed a movie for eight years, since Detroit in 2017. However, she recently broke this streak with the Netflix thriller A House of Dynamite. Staying within her usual themes and genre, A House of Dynamite explores a hopeless situation when U.S. defense agencies detect an incoming nuclear missile and fail to stop it.
The film was a hit from its premiere at a special screening event, which sparked Oscar buzz. It made a massive splash on Netflix when it finally became available to stream on October 24. Nearly a month after its streaming debut, A House of Dynamite remains one of the most popular movies on Netflix according to FlixPatrol. This is no small feat on a platform that releases many titles weekly, including big-budget films after short theatrical runs.
What Is 'A House of Dynamite' About?
The movie presents a situation that most world powers — and everyone else — hope never to face, and have worked hard to avoid. Events in the film explore different perspectives when the U.S. missile-defense system detects a nuclear missile heading for a major U.S. city. Everyone springs into action, but as time passes it becomes clear there's nothing they can do. From a soldier at a military base to the Secretary of Defense in the Pentagon and the President in the White House, everyone's world is rocked by this development.
In real life, The Pentagon weighed in to reassure the public it has nothing to worry about. It communicated that the nation's expensive missile defense system is reliable and could be expected to thwart any attempt to launch a missile into the U.S. They also claimed the missile-defense systems have been 100% effective in tests. However, experts in the field strongly disagreed with this second claim. Like many other Bigelow films, A House of Dynamite is expected to become a huge fixture at the next Academy Awards.
The star-studded cast includes Idris Elba (POTUS), Rebecca Ferguson (Olivia Walker), Gabriel Basso (Deputy National Security Advisor Jake Baerington), Jared Harris (Secretary of Defense Reid Baker), Tracy Letts (Anthony Brady), Anthony Ramos (Daniel Gonzalez), Moses Ingram (Cathy Rogers), Greta Lee (Ana Park), Jason Clarke (Mark Miller), Jonah Hauer-King (Robert Reeves), Willa Fitzgerald (Abby Jansing), Renée Elise Goldsberry (First Lady of the United States), Kyle Allen (Jon Zimmer), Kaitlyn Dever (Caroline Baker), and Brian Tee (Ken Cho).
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Like Follow Followed R War Drama Thriller Release Date October 10, 2025 Runtime 113 minutes Director Kathryn Bigelow Writers Noah Oppenheim Producers Greg Shapiro, Kathryn Bigelow, Noah Oppenheim
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