It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Paul Greengrass, the English director who specializes primarily in chronicling real-life disasters and Matt Damon-related global turmoil.

After adapting some non-Jason Bourne fiction in 2020 with the contemplative Western News of the World, it’s easy to imagine Greengrass taking the past five years to scour the globe for horrifying big-canvas events to dramatize, absolutely spoiled for choice. He’s landed on The Lost Bus, which takes place during the 2018 Camp Fire in California—the deadliest in the state’s history.

“During” might not do justice to just how deep into the wildfire The Lost Bus goes.

At first, the movie follows Kevin McKay (Matthew McConaughey), a down-on-his-luck single dad who has returned to his hometown to care for his own a

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