Steve Coll, the author of a Pulitzer-Prize-winning book on Osama bin Laden, has joined the chorus criticizing the depiction of torture in "Zero Dark Thirty."
The CEO of the New America Foundation said in a new essay that the film, which chronicles the manhunt and death of the al Qaeda leader, said the movie, written by former journalist Mark Boal, bills itself as a "reported film" but makes for "shoddy reporting."
"Boal and [director Kathryn] Bigelow have offered two main responses to the criticism they have received. One is that as dramatists compressing a complex history into a cinematic narrative, they must be granted a degree of artistic license," Coll wrote in the New York Review of Books.