Für alle Interessierten habe ich hier mal ein paar Fazits verschiedener Kritiken (keine Spoiler) zusammengestellt:
The Hollywood Reporter Todd McCarthy
The film's power steadily and relentlessly builds over its long course, to a point that is terrifically imposing and unshakable.
The Guardian
Telling a nearly three-hour story with an ending everyone knows, Bigelow and Boal have managed to craft one of the most intense and intellectually challenging films of the year.
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Once in a long while, a fresh-from-the-headlines movie - like "All the President's Men" or "United 93" - fuses journalism, procedural high drama, and the oxygenated atmosphere of a thriller into a new version of history written with lightning. Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow's meticulous and electrifying re-creation of the hunt for Osama bin Laden, is that kind of movie.
New York Magazine (Vulture) David Edelstein
As a moral statement, Zero Dark Thirty is borderline fascistic. As a piece of cinema, it's phenomenally gripping - an unholy masterwork.
Time Out New York Joshua Rothkopf
The details are gripping, presented with respect for an audience's intelligence.
Boxoffice Magazine
A masterwork from a master filmmaker.
Movieline Alison Willmore
Zero Dark Thirty makes you feel every step of Maya's journey, but it's her impressive achievement and that of the film itself that we're left contemplating, not her humanity - a stunningly well-realized whole with few soft spots to latch onto.
Scheint ein starker, intelligenter und durchaus actionreicher Film zu sein/werden, den man, trotz allgemein bekanntem Ende, gesehen haben sollte. Mein Ticket ist bereits reserviert
Deutscher Kinostart ist der 10. Januar 2013