Flight

Flight is currently streaming in the US on fuboTV and Paramount Plus Premium, and it rewards the patience it asks of you. The runtime earns every minute, with nothing here that feels like padding. With 6,494 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. Denzel Washington sets the tone, and the rest of the cast matches it scene for scene. Available now on fuboTV — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

There is a reason Flight keeps coming up in conversation. The writing in Flight treats its characters as people first, plot devices second. Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in only six lives lost. The performances from Denzel Washington and Don Cheadle give it more weight than the premise alone would suggest. It hit screens in 2012. What elevates Flight is a refusal to let any character off the hook too easily. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

For anyone looking for storytelling that takes its characters seriously, Flight delivers. It stands on its own even without an obvious comparison point. A contained runtime means every scene is doing real work. Denzel Washington is the centre of it, and it is one of their strongest performances on record. The patience it asks of you early on is paid back with interest.