Sully: A stark meditation on duty, heroism and horror averted

Tom Hanks delivers an outstanding performance

Tom Hanks stars as Sully, whose courage and skill piloted a disabled passenger jet down to the frozen waters of the Hudson River

Cinema

Sully: Directed by Clint Eastwood, Nationwide, 12A,Rating:****

Bleed For This: Directed by Ben Younger, Nationwide, 12a,Rating:****

In Sully, Clint Eastwood turns the real-life emergency landing of a passenger jet in the frozen waters of New York’s Hudson River into a stark meditation on heroism, duty and horror narrowly avoided. With dignity and ferocious tenacity, Eastwood’s film – the 35th of his directing career – doesn’t build to a single moment of fist-pumping ...