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Negative reviews
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3.6
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3.8
Zemeckis tight direction jives nicely with John Gatis long admired screenplay, resulting in a stylishly engaging character study with bold stabs at bi ..
Indie Wire
1.5
Also, though Washington gained a bit of weight for the role and is convincing as a middle aged man in decline, the preternatural beauty of Whitakers t ..
Indie Wire
4.0
Denzel Washington gives an Oscar nominated performance that turns Flight into something truly special and something that soars high above its servicea ..
We Got This Covered
4.5
Flight offers smart and mature commercial drama at its very best, and comes highly recommended.
We Got This Covered
3.0
For the first half hour or so, Flight keeps us rapt with thrilling action and a troubling moral quandary.
Austin Chronicle
3.0
But thanks to that dynamite opening and Washingtons effortless performance, its also an enjoyable, compelling slice of old school melodrama.
Time Out
4.5
With Zemeckis at the controls, Flight is a terrifically moving drama anchored by one of the greatest actors alive.
Collider
5.0
In the way it meets every requirement of a tricky plot, this is an ideal performance.
Rogerebert
3.9
Flight makes you never want to touch another drop of booze, but it makes cocaine seem like the greatest pick me up ever.
IGN
3.0
Whip Whitaker (Denzel Washington) is a commercial airline pilot and alcoholic.
Telegraph
4.0
Flight is a messy return to live action filmmaking for Zemeckis, but its strongest scenes and especially that plane crash are reason enough to be glad ..
Cinema Blend
4.0
The climax, featuring Denzels cross examination by Melissa Leos incisive and cold attorney is a nail biter, even if by this point, itll be obvious how ..
JoBlo
4.0
Once again, it ought to be emphasized that this film does unfold slowly following the visceral spectacle of the first act, giving rise to a funny, tou ..
Screen Rant
3.1
This movie is captivating until it gets uplifting Flight soars when it crashes and crashes when it soars.
The Globe And Mail
5.0
The result is a movie that resonates deeply.Its moral autopsy of a crash and its aftermath of butt covering and blame shifting is ideally suited to ou ..
Philly
4.4
Flight is neither a simple story of heroism, nor one of a fallen hero.
Philly
4.0
The lawyer Lang gets a clause put into the legal papers calling the disaster an act of God.
Spirituality And Practice
3.8
Flight is perceptively written by John Gatins, who makes this into a compelling story about the curse of addiction even if it is still a tale that lea ..
Sover
3.8
10 1 8 / 10 Robert Zemeckis took a detour in his directorial career in 2004, electing to build a motion capture industry with the Christmas fable, The ..
Blu Ray
3.5
To Zemeckiss credit, youre never really sure whether the guy is going to level off this time or not.
Chicago Reader
1.9
This is not an ambiguous portrait of a man; its a schizophrenic one.
Mark Reviews Movies
3.8
It is almost as if Whitaker is a better pilot drunk than anyone else is sober.It is not impossible.
Lariat
2.8
Obviously it is a cautionary tale about the perils of addiction, which Washington conveys with more gravitas and actorly devotion than usual.But when ..
Eric Ds Nider
3.0
This is part of the film chickening out and not allowing Washington to simply portray a man alone in a downward spiral.The screenwriter just had to th ..
News Review
3.5
But a performance can only carry a film so far if the drama isnt that interesting or engaging.
Screen It
4.4
First lesson learned from Flight: Never take Denzel Washington for granted.
Rolling Stone
4.0
The concept album that is Arethas Gold follows the chronology of Aretha Franklins hits, all released in 1967 and 1968, apex years of the decade not ju ..
Pop Matters
3.0
Similarly, the finale lacks dramatic impact, not least because the resolution isnt consistent with Whips previous behaviour over the last two hours an ..
View London
4.4
Its a near perfect piece of Hollywood filmmaking, slick and accessible but artful and even profound.
News Day
3.5
Its grace under pressure time, and Whip manages to successfully crash land and survive along with most of the crew and passengers.
Cs Monitor
5.0
The films coup is to organically mesh terrifying disaster film sequences into a narrative that above all deals effectively with themes of denial, addi ..
Film Journal
4.0
Its quiet, its powerful, its great.Washington projects a remarkable confidence in the face of just about everything.
Az Central
2.5
I cant fault its production values, its impressive crash scene or its performances.
Mountain X
4.0
As the opening scene reveals, it involves keeping his poisons in harmony: Peeling himself off a hotel bed after a wild night, Whip guzzles the stale s ..
Npr
5.0
Flight is an intensely cinematic thriller that also touches on the universal.
Star Tribune
4.2
But there is so much to admire that the aforementioned shortcomings do not undermine the films artistic merits, which are plentiful, and its overall e ..
Emanuellevy
4.0
But Washington is always there, a substantial antihero with a genuinely tragic dimension.
Guardian
3.0
But this flawed yet enjoyable film from screenwriter John Gatins and director Robert Zemeckis proves that it can still be kept airborne, with a little ..
Guardian
3.0
As a toxicology report came to light with blood alcohol counts that would put down a buffalo, I readied myself for a courtroom drama, complete with ha ..
Guardian
4.5
Flight is less about that, which really is its drawing card, than about the destructive self denial of substance abusers.
Reel Talk Reviews
3.8
Its not enough to sink the film as a whole, but its enough to make you wonder if the filmmakers were completely sure of what they were trying to say.
Q Network
2.0
The Kings Speech managed to achieve the status of insightful drama.Despite the best efforts of its talented cast, Hyde Park on Hudson is trivial and n ..
Daily Mail
4.5
AA, God, and prayer are invoked by various characters with various religious convictions in John Gatins unflinching screenplay, each time with a serio ..
Ew
3.5
At this point its a total cliche to describe Denzel Washington as one of our greatest screen actors.
Salon
4.0
Youll have a good night out, even if you dont remember it in the morning.
Slate
4.0
A welcome return to live action filmmaking for Zemeckis, who hasnt lost his knack for a brilliant shot or for extracting great performances.
Empire
3.5
Thats why youre not likely to see this terrifying chronicle of an aviation disaster while flying on any carrier.
Susang Ranger
3.8
Mr. Zemeckis has forgotten nothing about how to stage the kind of breathtaking live action fireworks display that keeps an audience paralyzed.
Observer
3.8
In most ways, Flight is a superior movie, and it deserves to be seen.
Sf Gate
4.4
Though its hampered by some formulaic touches (like a false ringing romance and a final scene too bent on lifting spirits), Flight is one unique, auda ..
Slant Magazine
4.0
So sit tight and enjoy the ride.Its hard to recall a more arresting introduction to a lead character than the opening minutes of Flight Whip is charis ..
Express
5.0
But its really not that sort of film.Here, thanks largely to one of Washingtons most intricate portraits, the crises have more to do with morals and e ..
Chicago Tribune
2.0
Its all informative and interesting, but also a little dry.Worth a look, but only one.
Bullz-Eye
3.5
...a good film anchored by a terrific performance and that early, orchestrated to a fare thee well, flight sequence.
Reeling Reviews
4.5
And sometimes a movie, well, you can just see from the get go that its not going to be one of those amazing powerful profound movies that rock your wo ..
Flickfilosopher
3.0
And yet.Washington works so hard and so effectively that Flight remains watchable.
The Irish Times
5.0
In fact, its refreshing to find a major studio movie, with an A list star, that is unabashedly adult in its orientation.I only wish it happened more o ..
Blogs Indie Wire
2.0
Worst of all, the ending completely undermines the moral complexity of the story, opting for a preachy redemption arc that rings completely false.
Las Vegas Weekly
3.8
Flight is a well made motion picture, but not a fun or entertaining one.
ReelViews
4.0
Denzel Washington stars in the Robert Zemeckis drama about an airline pilot who saves dozens of lives but faces prison because of drugs in his system. ..
Hollywood Reporter
3.0
Its a pretty cursory salvation, though the films whole purpose is to study a man deceiving himself.
Standard
2.5
Compiled with more than 40 hours of interviews with Coach Wooden, learn about the man behind the coach.
Tony Medley
2.8
Here is a film thats unclear on every concept of morality it puts forth.
Coles Mithey
3.0
A commanding performance elevates a film, but it can expose it as well, underlining that the surrounding material is not up to the standard it sets.
Los Angeles Times
3.8
Zemeckis typically invokes cinematic technique ranging on spectacle, and Flight delivers on that promise in an extended and masterful aerial sequence, ..
Groucho Reviews
3.5
It has been too long since weve seen Robert Zemeckis swing for the fences, and his return to live action turns out to be one of the most heartfelt and ..
Hit Fix
3.5
fires on all cylinders, running through a range that marks his most accomplished performance in some time, one certainly rating higher than the two th ..
Hit Fix
4.4
The romance with Nicole feels a little forced (and thats no slight against Reilly, whos outstanding), but everything else is riveting as both characte ..
Aisle Seat
3.1
Its worth noting, too, that the film improves substantially as it progresses into its comparatively enthralling third act, as Zemeckis transforms What ..
Reel Film
4.4
And John Goodman is funny perhaps too funny as Whips drug dealing crony, a pony tailed pusher who could be a big brother to Walter Sobchak of The Big ..
Nj
4.0
You half expect an airborne version of Unstoppable, a terrific action movie in which Washington played an engineer trying to head off a runaway train.
Movie Habit
3.8
Denzel Washington is the reason.His portrait of a pilot on the upper of heroics and the downer of substance abuse is a first class ticket to the Oscar ..
The Star
3.1
by Bill Chambers We open on a dingy little hotel room.Its hard to say what the night before was, but this is definitely a morning after.
Film Freak Central
2.8
Theres not much real value to this oddly slick stab at popcorn entertainment about a persons debilitating alcoholism (the presence of John Goodman as ..
Oregon Live
4.5
The film is more an edgy character study (with thriller elements) than a disaster movie or an air crash investigation procedural.
Urban Cine File
3.1
How People With Disabilities Are Challenging the Hollywood Pipeline At a networking event designed to provide resources and tools for the creative com ..
Movies Tv Guide
4.0
(MA, 138 minutes.).Opens Thursday Oscar nominated for his masterful portrayal of a booze soaked pilot facing a grim awakening, Denzel Washington singl ..
The Age
3.5
His Whitaker is alternately charismatic and foolhardy, surviving great risks yet clearly heading to disaster.
Maki At The Movies
4.0
It veers between wonderfully tense and grippingly intelligent and is brimming with a series of terrific performances.
Mirror
4.5
Washington spins for us the wreckage of a life strained by the tension between achievement and defeat, a person who thinks that he can master the odds ..
Varia Gate
3.8
With Flight, Denzel Washington delivers another great acting performance.
Three Movie Buffs
4.0
Its rare for adrenaline pumping set pieces to be front loaded in a drama, but thats part of what gives John Gatinss screenplay its strange power.
Digital Spy
4.2
But for two hours Flight is exhilarating drama, and a triumphant return to glory for both Zemeckis and Washington.
Tamp A Bay
2.5
All the way through to a cheap ending, Zemeckis uneasily manipulates character emotions and emphasizes bland discussions of God.
Red Eye Chicago
4.2
View full size Flight is a fantastically engrossing film that features one of Denzel Washingtons best, most multilayered performances.And thats really ..
Cleve Land
5.0
His unraveling brings on mood swings, rock oldies and a genre sampler, with the movie shifting from thriller to romance, family melodrama, legal drama ..
Ny Times
2.5
Like Amy Ryan in 2007s Gone Baby Gone , few people will be familiar with Reilly before seeing Flight, and the sheer force and intricacy of her touchin ..
Dustin Put Man
3.0
With another deeply committed performance, Washington brings badly needed complexity to what is otherwise a contrived, overstated drama about addictio ..
Contact Music
2.5
This all makes Flight a puzzling curiosity; its real undoing lies in its ending.
Larsen On Film
3.1
Like being ordered to have long hair and smile on stage, but wondering how to smile with a trombone in your mouth.Or repeatedly told youre not good en ..
News Blaze
4.0
So, though its not strictly a thriller, it builds its own kind of suspense as, slowly but surely, Whip comes closer and closer to actually seeing hims ..
Hollywood And Fine
4.0
Portraying the pilot Whit Whitaker is Denzel Washington in what is his best performance in years.
Matts Movie Reviews
2.5
It would be too easy to say that Mr. Zemeckis transition from animated 3D to live action features one dimensional characters.
Big Picture Big Sound
0.6
Denzel Washingtons one note character is a prisoner of a one thought plot.
Movie Crypt
5.0
Working from an Oscar worthy script by John Gatins, Zemeckis & Washington work together to deliver an adult oriented drama that is so consistently ent ..
Hollywood Chicago
4.5
Accenting action with drama is a common cinematic occurrence, but accenting drama with action is almost unheard of add to that a dash of humor and you ..
Cinemix Tape
3.5
The Bottom Line: Robert Zemeckis Flight has problems in its pacing and delivering a satisfying payoff, even as he proves himself as a director able to ..
ComingSoon
3.5
As usual, Zemeckis use of classic pop tunes to convey mood and character is expertly executed.
Sbs
3.0
Despite the film starting with the spectacular plane crash in question a long, tense and then exhilarating sequence that could easily be the most thri ..
The Shiz Nit
3.0
Thats all positive, but it feels safe.Flight started off as a thrillingly dangerous drama, and the 90 or so minutes of that are very much worth seeing ..
Crave Online
3.5
Sure, and they pad the film out to an unnecessary 139 minutes, yet still, for at least two thirds of its runtime, this is a tightly wound, thoroughly ..
What Culture
3.8
Days of Wine and Turbulence by Glenn Lovell Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker, the protagonist in Robert Zemeckiss Flight, is well named.Theres a ..
Bitly
2.0
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 car ..
Scots Man
3.0
In this case he flips the aircraft 180 degrees and flies it upside down until they can crash land safely, with a minimal loss of life.Its a nice touch ..
Scots Man
3.0
It doesnt happen.Oscar nominated for Best Actor, Washington gives a commanding performance (and female fans might like to know, a cheeky a**e shot) as ..
Metro
3.8
What follows is a story hits many of the familiar story beats for a movie about addiction, but always manages to add another layer of complex emotion.
Scene Stealers
3.5
Its a wicked joke, albeit one that doesnt quite gel with the overlying message.
Streaming Quickflix
2.5
Robert Zemeckis directs unevenly from an erratic screenplay by John Gatins. Flight basically is a shaky character study, but its strength is a terrifi ..
Tony Mack
1.5
Flight could have been a good movie and Im sad to say this if Zemeckis had forgone the human drama he obsesses about and just made a special effects d ..
Fat Guys At The Movies
2.2
None of it is Washingtons fault, as he is as effective as ever in a role that deserved a better, more focused central story.
From The Balcony
3.5
Helped by the script, the acting is unusually consistent for a Zemeckis picture.Melissa Leo as the largely unseen NTSB nemesis is splendidly sobering ..
Ny Mag
3.0
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Review Express
3.8
Washington doesnt make Whip endearing, but his portrait of a flawed hero is one of his best.
Cinema Sight
4.5
Blending The High and the Mighty and The Lost Weekend or, from this years movies, The Grey and Smashed Flight at its best marks an advance for its dir ..
Entertainment Time
4.0
But its Denzel Washington who shows what the director has been missing. His face says more in the first ten seconds of this fi lm than Zemeckis manage ..
Daily Star
3.8
Faulty mechanics.Never mind that this deeply flawed character has done a very commendable thing.
Reel Talk Online
4.0
The strength of Flight is the alluring and affronting performance of Washington.
Graffiti With Punctuation
1.5
Or, perhaps have waited until the end of the movie to show what happened.Instead weve got a mishmash of a plot with the audience expected to stow its ..
Movie Chambers
3.0
Except its not routine.A mechanical fault puts the plane and its 100 odd screaming passengers into a dive and its only Whips lightning technical insti ..
Sky
3.1
Like the occasional piece of lost luggage, the conveniently pat ending feels inevitable.A bloated, disheveled Washington makes a good drunk, never rel ..
Miami
4.0
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Richard Roeper
3.6
Its intense, depressing but ultimately a surprising film that really impressed me.
Schmoes Know
3.0
In short: Im doubting youll find Flight among the movie selections on your next cross country air trip.
Aarp
3.0
Apart from Denzels solid performance Flight has one absolutely stonking ace in the hole.
Hey U Guys
3.3
Its a solid, burnished work made about adults for adults and anchored by Denzel Washington in a role that calls for some classic star gravitas.
Movie Line
1.5
This is a Denzel Washington Oscar season movie.The ending is preordained.
Bad Ass Digest
2.5
It has a big performance by Denzel Washington, one of the last old fashioned movie stars.
Looking Closer
2.0
There is no emphasis on mechanical parts breaking loose or shoddy airline ground workers not doing their jobs properly to place the blame somewhere.
The Popcorn Junkie
2.0
Washington will likely earn another Academy Award nomination for this.Its just too bad his powerful performance is buried in what amounts to a big bud ..
Blogs Houston Press
3.5
But the unbelievable more unbelievable than a man flipping a plane over and landing it safely is that the adjoining hotel room door is left open a cra ..
Fox News
2.5
What the film is, is intermittently engaging.It stars Denzel Washington, whose career, if one is honest, has also been only intermittently engaging.
7 Dvt
3.5
A masterful, jaw dropping sequence of moviemaking, it may just be the scariest, most harrowing, nerve rattling depiction of an airline disaster ever p ..
American Profile
3.8
The collaboration of Washington, Zemeckis and screenwriter John Gatins elevates Flight into a turbulent blend of nerve racking thriller and substantiv ..
Rss Feeds Usa Today
3.5
But that is really almost untouched.So what you get is a beautifully made film with terrific acting and good lines and some really great moments and o ..
Movie City News
3.5
Zemeckis who hasnt directed a live action film since 2000s Cast Away shoots the film as straight as possible.But thats not to say its without wit.
Un Cut
4.0
The result is a gripping, deeply engaging and emotionally powerful drama that cost just $31 million to make and features Denzel Washington at the top ..
Access Hollywood
3.8
This doesnt need to be Requiem for a Dream or anything, but if were going to get a turn around, Face Your Fears ending, the movie has to work its way ..
Deads
4.0
Its an engaging picture, and not for a moment was I ever bored.But I never quite got viscerally hooked into Whips dilemma, or felt like we ever get to ..
Ticket Sarasota
4.5
Its not without a bit of turbulence, but with its weighty subject, award worthy acting and steady, competent directing, Flight easily sticks a landing ..
Jeffreyklyles Word Press
3.5
Aronofskys tale of three junkies and one prescription meds addict plays like a propaganda film, its four principal characters bottoming out into hell ..
Blogs Crikey
3.0
I promise, itll be better in your mind, for the same reason your teachers always used to tell you to read a book instead of watching TV.Go on a FLIGHT ..
Filmdrunk Uproxx
3.8
While the film is a little over two hours, this challenging drama never runs out of steam.
Black Filim
3.5
Like Cast Away, Flights narrative is set in motion by a wreck, a foundering, but this time theres a sort of genius behind the wheel.
Blogs Village Voice
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