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Bigelow's film lets viewers decide on their own if the pain, suffering, and carnage were justifiable for the chance to say mission accomplished in 2011.

Kathryn Bigelow's tense thriller is worth seeing again just to be reminded how brilliant Chastain is in this role of single-minded operative.

What stands out most (in addition to Jessica Chastain's brilliant performance) is the portrait of the normally mildly maligned (also often portrayed as supremely sneaky and up to no good) CIA-as a bastion of patriotism.

With its course of realism over romanticism, "Zero Dark Thirty" offers no slice-of-life, next-door-neighbor stories of Americana.

As was the case with The Hurt Locker (2008), where the central figures were US soldiers in Iraq, Bigelow concentrates in her latest work on how exhausting and difficult it is to be a victimizer.