Even though I've worked remotely for years now, I still know a good water cooler movie when I see one. And I have a hunch Netflix's latest No. 1 movie, "A House of Dynamite," is going to be what everyone's talking about on Monday. For two reasons: 1) It taps straight into the anxieties that all our doomscrolling these days trudges up; and 2) Its divisive ending has some viewers pissed, and polarizing low-stakes debates are a cornerstone of any company culture worth its salt.
"A House of Dynamite," which premiered on Netflix on October 24, is the first film from Kathryn Bigelow, the Oscar-winning director of "Zero Dark Thirty" and "The Hurt Locker," in nearly a decade. This white-knuckle nuclear thriller is a ticking time bomb with a structural twist, chronicling the American government's panicked response to an unidentified nuclear warhead heading straight for Chicago.
