The Lost Bus (2025)

‘The Lost Bus’: Matthew McConaughey Saves Children in True-Life Tale. Paul Greengrass directs the new based-on-truth dramatic thriller set in the flaming hellscape of 2018 Camp Fire, which also stars America Ferrera. Paul Greengrass can direct this sort of ripped-from-the-headlines drama with one hand tied behind his back; he’s proved time and again that he’s capable of wringing real emotion out of human chaos.

Fortunately, ‘The Lost Bus’ finds him fully in control of his faculties as a filmmaker, keeping the focus sharp and largely side-stepping cliches like a bus careening away from falling power lines.