There are very few filmmakers who are as skilled at making a gripping docudrama as Paul Greengrass is. Outside the action-heavy Bourne sequels, Greengrass has always leaned into recreating or dramatizing real-life events. His most celebrated, Captain Phillips , is a gripping and tense thriller that tells the story of the 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking, when Captain Richard Phillips, an American mariner, is kidnapped by Somali pirates. It sounds like a thematically heavy movie, and it undoubtedly is, but it's also immensely entertaining. Greengrass' other films portraying real-life tragedies, such as Blood Sunday , United 93 , and 22 July , are effective, but also the kinds of movies that almost feel too excruciating to watch.

Greengrass' latest film, The Lost Bus

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