Movie review: 'Only the Brave' paints a timely portrait of elite wildland firefighters
As if on cue, "Only the Brave" -- a deeply moving drama about firefighters -- arrives in theaters, just as the catastrophic wildfires in Northern California seem to be winding down.
Directed by Joseph Kosinski, from a screenplay by Ken Nolan and Eric Warren Singer, the film is based on a GQ story about the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite crew of firefighters who experienced a harrowing tragedy in Yarnell, Ariz., in 2013. If that event doesn’t ring a bell, I won’t reveal precisely what happened. Although it seems only fair to warn audiences that the outcome isn’t a happy one.