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'The Hurt Locker'

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The characters in "The Hurt Locker," Kathryn Bigelow's visceral, intense dramatization of a U.S. Army bomb squad's final month in Baghdad, never explain the film's title. They don't need to. Whatever this ominous-sounding place may be, they are in it. And from the film's harrowing first moments, so are you.

Written by journalist Mark Boal, who embedded with such a unit in 2004, "The Hurt...

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