Zero Dark Thirty (2012) Review
Zero Dark Thirty is one of the best American thrillers of the past fifteen years and one of the most controversial mainstream films of the post-2001 perio. She became the first woman to win that award.
Chris Pratt spent seven seasons on Parks and Recreation as a comic supporting character before losing sixty pounds and being cast in Guardians of the Galaxy, which is one of the more abrupt career transformations on record.
Star-Lord works because the comic instinct is genuine, and Pratt plays a man whose confidence is entirely unearned and knows it somewhere underneath.
Jurassic World and The Lego Movie made him one of the most commercially reliable leads of the 2010s.
The dramatic work is thinner, though he is good in Zero Dark Thirty and The Tomorrow War, and his public comments on faith and politics have made him a recurring subject of argument.