But that wasn’t always Bigelow’s established style. Throughout the 1980s and into the early ‘90s, she made a name for herself with fun, frivolous genre flicks. Then, 30 years ago, the Point Break director released a movie that set her career on a new trajectory — and almost derailed it completely in the process.
Strange Days landed Katherine Bigelow in director jail, but it’s still worth watching 3 decades later

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