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,
The Set-Up (1949 film) Wise used three cameras to capture the action: one focused on the ring in its entirety; one on the fighters; and a third, hand-held device to catch details such as a glove connecting with a body. When the film was released "The New York Times" reviewed the drama and lauded the picture's screenplay and the realistic depiction of the boxing "milieu"; they wrote: Jefferson Hunter, in a summer 2008 essay for "The Hudson Review", said: Wins Nominated The Set-Up (1949 film) The Set-Up is a 1949 American film noir boxing drama directed by Robert Wise and starring Robert Ryan and