Sully

Director Clint Eastwood and writer Todd Komarnicki recount 2009’s “Miracle on the Hudson,” when US Airways pilots Chesley Sullenberger (Tom Hanks) and Jeffrey Skiles (Aaron Eckhart) landed their crippled plane on the Hudson River minutes after takeoff, saving the lives of all 155 on board. The result is one superb piece of filmmaking, so uniformly fine that it’s hard to single out any part of the mix. Eastwood’s sure hand earns him the third Oscar he’ll probably never get, while Eckhart and (especially) Hanks all but disappear into their characters. My own money’s on Komarnicki’s tense and literate script, a work of near-genius that concentrates less on the incident than the NTSB investigation, where it looks as if Sullenberger and Skiles are being set up as scapegoats for the loss of an expensive plane. J.L.