The Hurt Locker
Who: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes
Category: Spotlight Premiere/Narrative Feature
What to Expect: An elite Army bomb squad unit -- pushed into playing a perilous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos that is Iraq -- must reassemble itself in a city where everyone is a potential enemy, and every object ... a deadly bomb.
What Caught Our Eye: Director Kathryn Bigelow (Strange Days, K-19: The Widowmaker) returns to the fold, with an Iraq war thriller. A distinct voice working in the alterna-Hollywood realm, there's bound to be some sweaty brows, intense action and hard decision-making for the film's main players..
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