Amid mounting controversy and swirling Oscars buzz, director Kathryn Bigelow‘s A House of Dynamite has remained the number one choice for moviegoers on Netflix the entire past week. The political thriller, which imagines a doomsday scenario on one breathless morning, debuted at the top of the streamer’s viewership charts, and has remained at the top ever since its release last month. A House of Dynamite courted controversy, with even the Pentagon weighing in on the implications of its plot. This only brought more attention to the film, which divided critics but received positive reviews.
According to FlixPatrol, A House of Dynamite has now completed an entire week at the peak of Netflix’s global viewership charts, swatting away competition from the new documentary film Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers, and the new psychological drama-thriller starring Colin Farrell, Ballad of a Small Player. A House of Dynamite features Rebecca Ferguson as a White House staffer who finds herself in command of the situation room one morning, as a nuclear missile is discovered to be headed towards the United States.
The same events are then retold from two different perspectives, ending with the President of the United States’ point-of-view. He’s played in the movie by Idris Elba, who, coincidentally, played the British premiere in the action comedy Heads of State only a few months ago. Unlike that film, which opened to mixed reactions, A House of Dynamite has been about as volatile on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes as its title suggests. It’s currently sitting at a 76% score on RT, having dropped from the low-80s. The film’s audience score is hovering in around the same range.
‘A House of Dynamite’ Is Attracting Oscars Buzz, like Bigelow’s Previous Films
A House of Dynamite is director Bigelow’s first feature since 2017’s Detroit, which was just as controversial. The movie tanked at the box office, putting Bigelow in the odd position of having won an Academy Award for Best Director, but struggling to get cinema for adults made. The film that she made before Detroit, Zero Dark Thirty, was also a critical hit, and it did rather well at the box office as well. A House of Dynamite marks the first time in over a decade that she hasn’t worked with writer Mark Boal, who not only scripted Detroit and Zero Dark Thirty, but also their Best Picture-winning The Hurt Locker. You can watch A House of Dynamite on Netflix, and stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
- Release Date
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October 10, 2025
- Runtime
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113 minutes
- Director
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Kathryn Bigelow
