Eye in the Sky

In "Eye in the Sky," a gripping thriller directed by Gavin Hood, the stakes are high when Colonel Katherine Powell (Helen Mirren) discovers that a terrorist cell in Kenya is planning a suicide bombing. As she takes command of a top-secret drone operation to capture the targets, her mission escalates from "capture" to "kill," forcing her to confront the moral and personal implications of modern warfare. A young girl's innocent presence in the kill zone sets off an international dispute between the US and British governments over the use of drones, raising questions about the ethics of killing from a safe distance.