United 93 Critic Reviews

This is a masterful and heartbreaking film, and it does honor to the memory of the victims.Read the full review

An unflinching, powerfully visceral and haunting portrait of the tragic events aboard one of the terrorist-commandeered flights on the fateful morning of Sept. 11, 2001.Read the full review

Far from being exploitive, the effect is inspiring: This is the best of us.Read the full review

Greengrass has made not only a thoroughly fact-checked film but a film that uncontrovertibly comes from the heart.Read the full review

Quite remarkably, though, its clear-eyed view of an unprecedented American tragedy leaves us with emotions that audiences of those earlier days would readily recognize -- love of country, bottomless grief, an appreciation of life's preciousness and fragility. A film that can do this and also teach is to be cherished. And seen. It's time.Read the full review

United 93 is powerful not only in the way it provides hope through the actions of a few unlikely heroes, but in its ability to take us back through time to a day many of us would prefer not to remember, but will never forget.Read the full review

Pulling the bandage of sentiment cleanly away from oozing concepts like ''heroism'' and ''our nation's war on terror'' in the aftermath of recent wounds, here's a drama about the most politically charged crisis of our time that grants the dignity of autonomy to every soul involved.Read the full review

The result is a tense, documentary-style drama that methodically builds a sense of dread despite the preordained outcome.Read the full review

United 93 unfolds with the terrible inevitability of a modern-day "Battle of Algiers," with Greengrass exerting superb control of tone, structure and pace...United 93 may be the best movie I ever hated.Read the full review