One of the most impressive things about Zero Dark Thirty, which has now been out in wide release for three weekends, is that it manages to maintain suspense even though we all already know what happens. It’s a movie about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, and we don’t need a spoiler warning on the news that the hunt was successful.

But that doesn’t mean the end of the movie is predictable—so you should stop reading here if you haven’t already seen it.

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