New On DVD: Flight

Few films are as bracing, wrenching and morally trying as Flight. Yet it is hardly a thriller. Some may even reel from a viewing of this Denzel Washington tome. The veteran actor plays an airline pilot who brings a damaged plane down in a remarkable crash landing, saving all on board--but that’s just the set up for a more grueling, nuanced, story that probes our concept of behavioral rights and wrongs, social mores and turns hero into anti-hero. Washington’s performance dominates the film, and he pulls off the depth of a character torn between talent and addiction with tremendous humanity. It is dense, different, intriguing and difficult to bear, all at the same time.

Starring: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Don Cheadle, Melissa Leo, Nadine Valazquez, Tamara Tunie, Brian Geraghty