...Captain Phillips is riveting. Though he remains unfortunately convinced that violently shaking his camera is the best way to achieve visual urgency, Greengrass nevertheless excels at pressure-cooker scenarios.

...one of the most emotionally draining climaxes of the year.

This unbearably tense hijack thriller is based on the true story from 2009 about a Somali pirate attack on an American container ship...

Both Greengrass and Hanks are on award-deserving form in a riveting, emotionally complex and hugely intelligent dramatisation of a real-life ordeal.