United 93 (2006)

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

Brilliant, tightly focused, and momentous.

Greengrass’s movie is tightly wrapped, minutely drawn, and, no matter how frightening, superbly precise.

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.

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.