Pick of the week
The Lost Bus
As the director of 9/11 drama United 93, Paul Greengrass has form in fictionalising real-life disasters. So it’s no surprise that his new film, about a school bus trying to flee the epically destructive 2018 Camp Fire in California, is a tense, thick-of-the-action thriller – one that may have you checking your hair for singeing by the end. Matthew McConaughey (at the frazzled end of his handsome spectrum) is driver Kevin McKay, who picks up a bunch of kids, plus teacher Mary Ludwig (America Ferrera), as an inferno surges towards the town of Paradise. Greengrass keeps a vice-like grip on the plot, and our emotions, as the temperature rises and their options narrow.
Out now, Apple TV+
