US EditionKathryn Bigelow's 'A House of Dynamite' Is an Electrifying Nuclear Thriller
The film reveals a 61% chance of intercepting a nuclear warhead that could kill 10 million people if not stopped within 18 minutes, highlighting ongoing global risks.
- Kathryn Bigelow returns after eight years with the political thriller A House of Dynamite, opening in U.S. cinemas on October 10, 2025, and streaming on Netflix October 24, 2025.
- At the end of the Cold War, the film notes a consensus to reduce nuclear weapons, and Kathryn Bigelow made the film to remind audiences that nuclear warheads remain amid rising global instability.
- A predicted impact in 19 minutes forces leaders to confront a missile from the Pacific headed for Chicago, with about 18 minutes to stop it before 10 million die and only a 61% intercept chance.
- Advocacy groups are calling on viewers to join the Union of Concerned Scientists in urging Congress to stop costly nuclear expansions and `dismantle this house of dynamite`.
- Over the last six decades the United States has invested nearly $400 billion in missile defense, yet the film argues ICBMs on `hair-trigger` alert create a dangerous `use-it-or-lose-it` risk.
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Kathryn Bigelow's 'A House of Dynamite' is an electrifying nuclear thriller
An intercontinental ballistic missile is going to hit Chicago in a little more than 19 minutes. The director takes us through those 19 minutes three times, moving further up the chain of command with each iteration. The film "leaves you rattled and wrung out," reviews critic Sean Burns.
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Kathryn Bigelow’s new film, scripted by Noah Oppenheim, confronts a truly terrifying possibility, said Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian: “that a nuclear war could or rather will start with no one knowing who started it or who ended it”.It imagines a scenario in which a nuke has been launched from the Pacific and is heading for Chicago. Its predicted impact time is just 19 minutes. Blindsided, the US military at various bases scrambles to try to in…
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