A House of Dynamite Review

“A House of Dynamite” Is a Major Misfire from a Great Filmmaker

Justin Chang reviews Kathryn Bigelow’s film “A House of Dynamite,” starring Rebecca Ferguson, Anthony Ramos, Greta Lee, and Idris Elba.

A House of Dynamite Review

A House of Dynamite is enjoying a limited theatrical release and will soon make its Netflix premiere on October 24. Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow's first movie in nearly a decade is a paranoid sandbox of doomsday porn featuring a talented ensemble sweating and fretting their way through a global game of nuclear chicken. For a movie mostly featuring characters prattling and panicking in enclosed government spaces, it has a swiftness of energy and …

A House of Dynamite

From director Kathryn Bigelow comes A House of Dynamite (trailer), starring Rebecca Ferguson, Idris Elba, and Greta Lee. When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond. A House of Dynamite is out in theaters right now and will be on Netflix in a couple of weeks. Tags: A House of Dynamite · Kathryn Bigelow · movies · trailers · video 💬 Join the discussion on …

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By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 14 October 2025 (IDN) — I'm just out of the cinema having seen Kathryn Bigelow's masterful film, A House of Dynamite, about a nuclear missile found on radar to be heading towards America. The…

Idris Elba wanted his version of POTUS in ‘A House of Dynamite’ to be “as ordinary as possible”

When Kathryn Bigelow sets a clock in motion, she doesn’t let go. From The Hurt Locker to Zero Dark Thirty, her films have been exercises in tension, exploring how ordinary people react when the stakes are crushing. Her latest project, A House of Dynamite, might be her most nerve-racking yet: 18 minutes to decide what to do after a nuclear missile is launched at the United States.Continue reading…

A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE – Review

A House of Dynamite. (Featured L-R) Tracy Letts as General Anthony Brady and Gbenga Akinnagbe as Major General Steven Kyle in A House of Dynamite. Cr. Eros Hoagland/Netflix © 2025. To many of us, nuclear weapons seem like something relegated to the Cold War past, but in Kathryn Bigelow’s chilling psychological thriller A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, we are reminded that threat is still very much with us. An ICBM of unknown origin is detected by military s…