Flight Reviews

Not the most compelling portrait of addiction, but it's a satisfactory one.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

The powerful pull of the bottle is conveyed with considerable force...The character fits Washington like a tailored strait-jacket, possibly because he's worn it before.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Robert Zemeckis boldly returns to live action with a soaring drama that exceeds expectations thanks to Denzel Washington's Oscar-nominated performance.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

If you've got the nerve, buckle up.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

In John Gatin's script not only have Robert Zemeckis and Denzel Waashington found an outlet to profess their spirituality, but they also deliver some of their best work.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

An extremely entertaining watch, if not a wholly empathetic experience.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

[E]nds up saying, [Expletive] those people who want more than a nice risk-free complacent ending.

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Zemeckis - who hasn't directed a live action film since 2000's Cast Away - shoots the film as straight as possible. But that's not to say it's without wit.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

In Flight Zemekis and co. have achieved something braver than the familiar "drugs are bad mmmk" chestnut, creating one of Hollywood's most vivid portrayals of a functional alcoholic character, and asking us not to judge him not by his addiction.

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There's no doubt that audiences used to him as Malcolm X or 'Hurricane' Carter will be appalled by the sight of him completely off his face.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

A borderline farcical approach to addiction that's so heavy-handed it could be added to the weight program at a gym

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Flight may begin on a glorious high, but the long hangover that follows is a prime example of mainstream Hollywood dramatic filmmaking at its most cartoonish.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Zemeckis generally sustains the tension, though the movie is overlong and the full implications of the drama are never fully confronted. But Washington is always there, a substantial antihero with a genuinely tragic dimension.

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t is hard to think of a film as weirdly paced or as oddly structured as Robert Zemeckis's largely successful return to live-action drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

...isn't true to the hard work of confession.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Here, after the truly alarming crash sequence, there are no special effects, just deft and committed film-making, letting us see steadily in long takes.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

"God help me" cries Denzel, as he contemplates his ruinous addiction but it might have been better if he'd helped us by instructing Zemeckis and Gatins not to be so heavy handed in the religious symbolism department.

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With another deeply committed performance, Washington brings badly needed complexity to what is otherwise a contrived, overstated drama about addiction.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Thankfully, anchoring it all is Washington.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Flight is fair in the air; on the floor it's a bore.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5