A House Of Dynamite Review: Kathryn Bigelow’s Paranoiac Thriller Is Boring Earnestness Of The Highest Order

Two distinctly different depictions of Cold War nuclear paranoia were released in 1964 by two distinctly different luminaries. Stanley Kubrick saw an inherent ridiculousness and stupidity in the powers that pulled the levers, and so opted for a black comedy in Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Sidney Lumet, meanwhile, was more sober in his earnest portrait of serious men doing serious things with Fail Safe. It is Kubrick’s film that has stayed ensconced in the cultural zeitgeist, a reflection, perhaps, of just how absurd nuclear warfare continues to be. Kathryn Bigelow’s A…