Going in to the historical drama "7 Days in Entebbe," I'll admit to having only the vaguest notion of the events that inspired the film. I knew that a passenger plane, after taking off from Israel at ...

Rosamund Pike (left) stars as “Brigitte Kuhlman” and Daniel Brühl (right) stars as “Wilfred Bose” in José Padilha’s “7 Days in Entebbe.” Contributed by Liam Daniel / Focus Features Rosamund Pike (left ...

Jose Padilha's 7 Days in Entebbe opens with a galvanizing flurry of activity. But the bustle is not the 1976 airliner hijacking that begins the main story, or the Israeli commando raid that concludes ...

The gripping political thriller “7 Days in Entebbe” — based on true events and directed by Brazilian filmmaker Jose Padilha — opens, somewhat surprisingly, with a modern dance performance. It’s a ...

At this point the 1976 Entebbe raid—in which Israeli commandos rescued more than a hundred airline passengers from German and Palestinian hijackers—has been filmed so many times that it probably ...

Movies go bad in all kinds of ways, but in “7 Days in Entebbe” the filmmakers found a brand new way for their movie to commit suicide. It happens, remarkably, in the movie’s last 10 minutes, in a ...

The Story: The (more or less) true story of the 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight from Tel Aviv that led to a seven-day hostage standoff in Uganda. The Lowdown: While stylish in places, the film ...