If you loved Strange Days, try Zero Dark Thirty

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Strange Days

1995 · dir. Kathryn Bigelow

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Both films are directed by Kathryn Bigelow, and they both carry the dread, slow burn mood tags, and they sit in Drama / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to Strange Days, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Zero Dark Thirty is

Abu Dhabi, night, a phone rings. A decade of clues, a team of operatives, a compound in Abbottabad. Bigelow gets the details right.

If you loved Strange Days, try Zero Dark Thirty

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