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Detroit – Successful Journalism, Not So Successful Cinema (Guest Review)

Director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal have proven to be an invaluable filmmaking team the past decade. Whether exploring the Iraq War via a fictional character study (The Hurt Locker) or showing us the bureaucracy behind hunting the world’s most wanted man (Zero Dark Thirty), the two have been extremely successful tackling real subject material with a cinematic approach appropriate for the harsh topics they cover.