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United 93

September 11, 2001. Four planes were hijacked. Three of them reached their target. This is the story of the fourth.

2006 · 1h 51m · R Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Directed by Paul Greengrass

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Overview

A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.

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90%
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Rotten

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.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Rotten

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.

Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic
Rotten

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

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Fresh

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

Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Rotten

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

Dana Stevens, Slate

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