“The Lost Bus” is a story of real-life heroism that plays like a runaway tour through a burning house. Based on events that took place during the 2018 Camp Fire – the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history – the movie is effective human drama but is more successful as a visceral, digitally enhanced theme park ride. If you are at all interested, I advise you to see the movie in theaters before it reroutes on Oct. 3 to Apple TV+, where it will feel like a bonfire as opposed to the big-screen inferno it deserves to be experienced as.

Matthew McConaughey has one of his grittier, more taciturn roles as Kevin McKay, a down-on-his-luck school bus driver in Paradise, a small town about 90 miles north of Sacramento. Divorced and supporting a disabled mother (Kay McCabe McCon

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