The Lost Bus (2025) Reviews & Ratings

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The Lost Bus reviews

The Lost Bus holds a 7.0/10 average from 839 TMDB ratings.

Ok, so there’s no volcano, but otherwise this is a pretty straightforward hybrid of “Dante’s Peak” (1997) and “Speed” (1994) only here it is Matthew McConaughey who’s driving the bus. Of course, we have the usual dysfunctional family background for the recently divorced and struggling “Kevin” as he tries to reconcile with his disinterested son “Shaun” (his own real life son Levi) who has come to stay with him and hi…
— CinemaSerf (6/10)

A determined father risks everything to rescue a dedicated teacher and her students from a raging wildfire.

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