The Hurt Locker
At any second, your life could end. That’s the lesson at the crux of all of war’s existential crises. And in “The Hurt Locker,” centered around an bomb disposal team in the Iraq War, this lesson is shown in unbearably agonizing detail. Kathryn Bigelow’s nail-biter plays like a suspense thriller, action film and psychological character study all at once. It won the Academy Award for best picture, deservedly so.