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Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: There's nothing about United 93 that qualifies as entertainment in the traditional sense: It is an unpleasant, wrenching experience, which is just as it should be. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: ... for all its shock value, it is never exploitative, and it has something important to say. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The film is lean, harsh and remarkably free of cant. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: 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. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: ... a powerful and thoughtful dramatization of the terrorist crash of United Flight 93 ... Read more
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic: 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. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: This is the best movie so far this year [and] I think it's the most important film. Read more
Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: It easily ranks as the best movie so far this year. Read more
Keith Phipps, AV Club: The knowledge of what's to come allows Greengrass to build almost unbearable tension reinforced by his characters' ignorance, and later, their slow realization of what's going on. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: It's hard to imagine any American not being moved by this film. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: ... you come out feeling that the filmmakers have done the right thing by this day. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: It's a mark of Greengrass' unequaled gift for believably re-creating reality that, once seen, it's impossible to get United 93 out of your mind, no matter how much you may want to. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: Greengrass' own formidable version brings [the story of United Airlines Flight 93] to life -- and to death -- with a bluntness and nobility that are almost too hard to bear. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Although the film has been made with great finesse, it is devoid of showbiz exploitation. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: ... in telling the story of the one terrorist-commandeered jet that did not hit its target on Sept. 11, 2001, United 93 does so much right. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: This is art engaging grim reality in the hope of perspective, understanding and perhaps even closure. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: [Paul Greengrass] keeps a cataclysmic story scaled to the vulnerable men and women involved. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: United 93 is an exhausting but commanding work of art. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: Writer-director Paul Greengrass' United 93 is nothing short of a direct refutation of all the conventional Hollywood wisdom concerning how such a movie should be made. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: United 93 is a shattering, yet effective tribute to men and women who, when faced with unimaginable terror and all-but-certain death, dared to resist their fate using whatever they could get their hands on. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: With events as well known as these, Greengrass doesn't need to sensationalize. The film is more powerful when he un -sensationalizes. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: Their story is told with devastating realism, stirring up a fresh sense of horror and erasing five years' distance from the attacks. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: It is a docudrama done with great sensitivity, and with unerring judgment in the writing and in the depiction of the passengers and hijackers. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Even the undeniable heroism of the passengers on United 93 doesn't edify as it should. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: It is a movie that takes us where we don't want to go but need to. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: When I compile my Top 10 list of films for 2006, United 93 will be on it, and almost certainly close to the top. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: To watch United 93 is to be confronted with the grim chaotic reality of that autumn day in 2001. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: I've never had a more excruciating moviegoing experience in my life, and as brilliantly crafted -- and as adamantly unexploitive -- as the picture is, it still leaves you wondering why it was made in the first place. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: ... United 93 is a riveting docudrama as compelling as it is odd. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: ... this is a picture we all must see. Read more
Time Out: 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. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: It is undeniably the most gut-wrenching and captivating film released this year. Read more
Dennis Lim, Village Voice: Like most memorials, it is respectful, premised on competing obligations to the dead and the living, and eager to stress that the deaths were not in vain. It not only tells us we should never forget but also illustrates how we should remember. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: United 93 may be the best movie I ever hated. Read more