"If you see it, try to experience it on as big a screen as you can find - with a killer sound system. Greengrass again gives audiences a full-on sensory experience and it's one that throws us into chaos of a raging, fatal firestorm, and it makes us feel like we're in the thick of it with incredible visual effects, piercing, crackling and snapping sound effects and a jittery docudrama style that keeps us on edge."
"Expect every last nerve to get frayed as wayward school bus driver Kevin McKay (Matthew McConaughey) and teacher Mary Ludwig (America Ferrara) ride through Dante's inferno to deliver 22 elementary school kids to safety. Greengrass charts the fire from its start to its smoldering finish and while that provides white-knuckling action, McConaughey and Ferrara make a formidable team, but it is the fire that dominates, along with how it depicts everyday people emerging to do something heroic."
The Lost Bus is a tense re-creation of the 2018 Camp Fire centered on a rescue that saves 22 elementary school children. The film deploys intense visual effects, piercing sound design and a jittery docudrama style to immerse audiences in a raging firestorm. The narrative follows a bus driver and a teacher navigating inferno conditions while highlighting Cal Fire and other first responders' bravery and examining the fire's origins and PG&E's role. Lead performances provide a strong human anchor, but the fire itself remains the dominating force. The film earned 3½ stars.
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