This one had me choking up in the cinema. Paul Greengrass' astonishingly gripping account of the 'fourth' plane in the 9/11 attacks is just about the most vivid, intense depiction of a real-life tragedy as you'll ever find on film. It's easy to do respect to a fictional story of this style, but the outstanding level of intimacy and empathy displayed by Greengrass in telling this true story surpasses everything else he has put to film, and almost everything else put to film these last ten years. At once unbearably tense and deeply moving, United 93 ranks as one of the foremost American masterpieces of its age. It's flat-out one of the best-acted films I've seen, and undoubtedly the most emotionally affecting.
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