As straightforward as a film can be, Sully follows Captain “Sully” Sullenberger during and in the days after the “Miracle on the Hudson” landing where the pilot strategically placed an Airbus full of 155 people in the icy New York river. Have you heard about it? Probably. In fact, like many Americans, in the days and weeks to follow, you found yourself getting a serious aviation engineering education just from watching the news. Tom Hanks turns in another stellar performance along with Aaron Eckhart as Co-Pilot Jeff Skiles. The film is the most successful in the recent crop of “incident review” films. It neither overdramatizes the situation, nor does it heap on heroic praise. It is best when it captures the “hero to zero” trauma experienced by emergency responders and other high performance individuals. The pilot and co-pilot took a fair amount of time in their personal understanding of the incident to recognize that they performed exceptionally. In the moments and days after, putting a plane in the Hudson was not something either one was proud of or celebrating. To question your own decisions and struggle internally while the world celebrates you as a hero and the powers that be investigate everything for a false move is what actually happens and Sully portrays it beautifully. Still, if you’re not interested in these sorts of nuances, the film does bring anything new to the table that you didn’t see on the evening news.