In Paul Greengrass’s hands, The Lost Bus is high-octane action underscored by the intimacy of the human stories that are caught in the whirlwind of these greater disasters.

Scary. Frays the nerves. Audiences will feel like they barely escaped the flames.

As with all Paul Grengrass' films, it has the grit of real life.

"The Lost Bus" is harrowing, yes, but it’s also blunt and occasionally shameless in its depiction of this tragedy. But when McConaughey grips that wheel, sweat pouring off him as the windshield fills with flames, you stop caring about the clichés