The action outing stars Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Dockery, and Topher Grace, and lands in theaters with a thump.

If one is compelled to inextricably correlate the art and the artist, there are any number of reasons for viewers to avoid new work from Mel Gibson. But the strongest in this particular case is ...

For “Flight Risk,” his first outing as a director in nearly a decade, the Oscar winner isn’t quite taking center stage.