Kathryn Bigelow's nuclear war thriller "A House of Dynamite" opened in theaters this week. Ever since her 2008 Iraq war drama and Oscar darling "The Hurt Locker," Bigelow has stuck to similar films: see "Zero Dark Thirty" and "Detroit." The first half of her career, though, shows she's capable of even more.

Bigelow's 20th-century resume includes offbeat films like "Near Dark," a neo-Western starring vampires, the surfer and bank robber classic "Point Break," and the cyberpunk rave "Strange Days." The latter unfortunately flopped at the box office (only earning $17 million on a $42 million budget) and has since then has lapsed in and out of wide availability. It was briefly added to the HBO Max library in 2023, but has since vanished back into the streaming ether. 30 years on, "Strange D

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