The Hurt Locker film of 2009, behind Pixar's "Up". The critics' consensus reads, "A well-acted, intensely shot, action filled war epic, Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" is thus far the best of the recent dramatizations of the Iraq War." Metacritic, which assigns a normalized score, gave the film an average score of 94 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".<ref name="meta"> The Hurt Locker The Hurt Locker is a 2008 American war thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal released on June 26, 2009. It stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Christian Camargo, Ralph Fiennes,
This Is the Life (2008 film) ""This is the Life" vaults into the upper echelons of must-see hip-hop documentaries. It's smart, informative, and hugely important historically". "Variety" wrote, "The docu is clearly the product of real love, bubbling over with enthusiastic performances and an indelible sense of place". The "Los Angeles Times" called the film, "A rich narrative of praise, clarification, brother-and-sisterhood and the birth of cool". Director Ava DuVernay self-distributed "This is the Life" through her Forward Movement banner. The film opened theatrically in Los Angeles on March 10, 2009, and premiered on Showtime in May 2009. This Is the Life (2008 film) This is