“Sully” (***1/2 out of four) was an excellent biographical drama of Chesley Sullenberger (Tom Hanks) who became a hero after making an emergency landing along the Hudson River saving all 155 flight crew and passengers aboard only to be interrogated and chastised by administrators for acting unprofessionally. Director Clint Eastwood tells the story simply but eloquently and frames it with powerful flashbacks to the crash and how everyone miraculously survived. Hanks is first-rate as always but so is Aaron Eckhart as his first officer and co-pilot who faces the blame and heroism. Movie is also refreshingly quick and short at about 90 minutes.

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