" The Hurt Locker " opened today to some of the strongest reviews for a movie this year. The Iraq war drama about a bomb squad earned a jaw-dropping 91 among the reviews surveyed by Metacritic , and the aggregate score of top critics at Rotten Tomatoes came in at a still-impressive 89. Among those most enthusiastic about the Kathryn Bigelow -helmed movie was Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly , who called the film "an intense, action-driven war pic, a muscular, efficient standout that simultaneously conveys the feeling of combat from within as well as what it looks like on the ground." She raved about the lead performance of Jeremy Renner (photo, right) as a bomb disposal specialist and noted, "Guy Pearce and Ralph Fiennes make brief, jolting cameo appearances as similar risk-takers." New York Times critic A.O. Scott... [read full story]
