The unorthodox casting choices by Greengrass lend the production an immeasurable level of realism. A filmmaker who often goes overboard with handheld cameras, Greengrass keeps that in check here, adding another layer of “you-are-there” believability.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 11, 2023

...a top-tier endeavor that’s difficult to watch, for sure, but also incredibly rewarding.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 19, 2022

It's hard to imagine a less sensationalized 9/11 film than this riveting docudrama.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 20, 2021

A magnificent, superb film. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Feb 14, 2020

An exquisite and respectful masterpiece that resonates with power, intensity and raw emotion, making it 2006's best film.

| Original Score: A | Nov 19, 2019

A well-crafted and respectful film. If only it had gone one step further in driving that point home.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 5, 2019

The film pulls you into its world, turns you a passive participant. You can feel the desperation of the passengers and as they run to the cockpit...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 18, 2019

What might be therapeutic for the families is not perhaps meant for public consumption. After all, few things are more private than the last minutes of a life.

| Sep 26, 2017

All that United 93 can tell us. . .is that many people are brave and some people are dastardly.

| Aug 18, 2017

It's a difficult and upsetting experience but a worthwhile one, which will linger in your mind long after the film ends.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 22, 2016

Above all, one truth remains: the sacrifice of the 40 passengers on Flight 93 is truly remarkable. The film portrays their courage in the face of staggering odds in its own subjective and respectful way. It achieves what it wants as a film.

| Mar 5, 2014

A black hole

| Aug 30, 2009

A flawed, but gripping well-crafted piece of drama...

| Apr 29, 2009

This is not a film you go to for enjoyment, but because you have a duty to endure it.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Feb 28, 2008

This is first-rate, visceral filmmaking: taut, watchful, free of false histrionics, as observant of the fear in the young terrorists' eyes as the hysteria in the passenger cabin, and smart enough to know this material doesn't need to be sensationalized.

| Nov 1, 2007

I can say that "United 93" has been done well -- with intelligence, compassion, efficiency -- and yet still question whether it was worth doing.

| Original Score: B | Jul 25, 2007

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 14, 2007

A supreme achievement.

| Mar 1, 2007

Amazingly detailed in its narrative cohesion and editing, United 93 is a noble tribute to the tragedy of 9/11.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 7, 2007

Greengrass recreates the attacks on the World Trade Center utilizing existing news footage and it still retains the horror of that day. Despite knowing the ultimate outcome of this film, UNITED 93 is a harrowing and important film.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 12, 2007