Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

Most people think so. 83% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 93%.

A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011. Wikipedia ↗

Zero Dark Thirty is a 2012 American political thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow, depicting the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden following the September 11, 2001 attacks. Jessica Chastain stars as Maya, a CIA intelligence analyst whose single-minded, obsessive pursuit of the al-Qaeda leader drives the investigation from its earliest interrogation-based intelligence gathering through years of dead ends, bureaucratic resistance, and deadly attacks on CIA personnel to the final Navy SEAL assault on bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The film generated enormous controversy over its depiction of enhanced interrogation techniques — opponents argued the film implied torture produced actionable intelligence, while the filmmakers maintained they were documenting what happened without endorsing it.

Jessica Chastain's Maya was a mesmerizing presence — a woman who has sacrificed her entire personal life for a single purpose and whose hollow, exhausted expression in the final shot asked whether the cost was worth it. Zero Dark Thirty earned $132 million worldwide on a $40 million budget.