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

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

Greengrass takes pains to keep events believable and relatively unrhetorical, rejecting entertainment for the sake of sober reflection, though one has to ask how edifying this is apart from its reduction of the standard myths.

| Dec 26, 2006

Impossible to recommend as a great Friday night out, yet agonisingly vital as thought-urging cinema.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 4, 2006

United 93 terrifyingly conveys the nature of the threat facing the world today and poignantly conveys onscreen the decision by a few brave individuals to fight back.

| Sep 28, 2006

It is the film of the year. I needed to lie down in a darkened room afterwards. So will you.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 3, 2006

United 93 might be an insular response to a global tragedy, but -- taken on its own, limited terms -- it is powerful and sincere, giving reign to pity and fear without indulging jingoism or sentimentality. For that at least it deserves applause.

| Jun 1, 2006

It is emotionally raw yet unsentimental; it shows people at their most pained and inspirational; it is both brilliant and troubling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 16, 2006

This limitation in source material has had a peculiar effect on the script. Never is there a moment of repulsive sentimentality or exploitation, but neither is Greengrass able to realize an ultimate purpose.

| May 12, 2006

Emotionally devastating and yet strangely empty.

| Original Score: C+ | May 8, 2006

A sober, humanistic portrait.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 6, 2006

Even the undeniable heroism of the passengers on United 93 doesn't edify as it should.

| May 3, 2006

The supposed centerpiece of the movie is its least involving part. There's a crude transition from the ground docudrama to in-air melodrama that occurs about halfway through.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 28, 2006

... this is a picture we all must see.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 28, 2006

... left me feeling curiously unmoved and even slightly resentful.

| Apr 28, 2006

... for all its shock value, it is never exploitative, and it has something important to say.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 28, 2006

... a powerful and thoughtful dramatization of the terrorist crash of United Flight 93 ...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 28, 2006

It is a docudrama done with great sensitivity, and with unerring judgment in the writing and in the depiction of the passengers and hijackers.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 28, 2006

... you come out feeling that the filmmakers have done the right thing by this day.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 28, 2006