Warning : this article will contain spoilers for "A House of Dynamite."
Kathryn Bigelow's new film "A House of Dynamite" is a terse tryptic of tense tales that all cover the same time frame. It takes place on the morning when an unknown foreign entity launches a nuclear missile from somewhere unknown. In the time it takes for the missile to sail toward the United States, audiences see the White House situation room, a distant army base, various politicians and experts, and the president himself responding to the crisis. The film's first 35 minutes or so sees what the emergency looks like at the White House, mostly seen through the eyes of senior staff member Olivia Walker (Rebecca Ferguson). Panic mounts as they realize that the nuclear missile is headed straight for Chicago, and it w