There are certain films that look incredible — on paper. Those films are often put on the “Black List,” a register of the ...

Tracking service Quorum spots some of the gas leaking on Flight Risk: Unaided awareness has stalled at 4%, which is never a good sign in a pic’s final week, with interest slipping from 55% to 51%.

But despite the turbulence, Mel Gibson’s “Flight Risk” managed to open No. 1 at the box office with a modest $12 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. On a quiet weekend ...

All of that is to say that “Flight Risk” is a bit of a novelty. It’s a sometimes competent, mostly not, low-concept aerial thriller about a U.S. Marshal escorting a mob witness in a tiny ...

If Gibson’s auteurist touch is anywhere to be found in Flight Risk, your critic’s best guess is that he might have given notes on the “humor” in the film’s script, which is excruciating.