An out-of-control wildfire and a bus full of schoolchildren are the only things standing between a father and his ill son in “The Lost Bus,” which dramatizes the real-life 2018 Northern California Camp fire that took the lives of 85 people.

Director Paul Greengrass, architect of the “Bourne” films as well as “Captain Phillips” and “United 93,” does his best to create a breathless journey through the fires of hell, but his script, co-authored with Brad Ingelsby (“The Way Back”), keeps hitting speed bumps along the way.

Matthew McConaughey plays Kevin McKay, a down-and-out bus driver whose life is one dead end after another. He was estranged from his father and now has a son (Levi McConaughey, the last name’s not a coincidence) who is fixing to do the same with him. He can’t quite seem to

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