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

...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.

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

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