Kathryn Bigelow’s film about the plot to kill bin Laden does not endorse torture. That it gives rise to such claims demonstrates at least one thing about this compelling work: It’s not a comfortable ride.

Here are the first glimpses of Zero Dark Thirty, the director Kathryn Bigelow’s upcoming film about the Navy SEAL mission that killed Osama bin Laden.

Documents obtained by a conservative watchdog group show that director Kathryn Bigelow and her crew consulted with the CIA and Defense Department in their upcoming film about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

“If he wasn’t an insurgent, he sure as hell is now.” So quips Staff Sergeant William James after shooting out a Baghdad cabbie’s windshield with his sidearm, and then pressing the muzzle in the center of the man’s forehead in an effort to get him to move his car out of a dangerous area. The line is delivered with a wry smirk as the driver is subsequently being hauled roughly from his car by…