Idris Elba plays the president of the United States in ‘A House of Dynamite,’ an apocalyptic political thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Noah Oppenheim, now showing on Netflix.

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By Dwight Brown

Contributing Writer

“Object remains inbound!” Those aren’t the words you want to hear when a nuclear missile is headed your way.

Yet that’s the ominous news that bombards government officials in “A House of Dynamite,” an imaginative, pulse-quickening thriller. News that brings astonishment, audacity, mystery, dread and a disarray that’s alarming.

In the hands of some directors, the bomb’s explosion would be the point of a far-fetched and frenzied disaster movie. Instead, the goal of this thoughtful script by Noah Oppenheim (“Jackie”), is to scare the bejesus out

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