[A] quiet, reflective film... Earhart is not an icon or a symbol: she's a human being... [T]he assumption of autonomy... is a luxury rarely accorded to women in our pop culture, and it is wonderful to see here.
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10/23/09
Amelia (2009)
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Reviews Counted:138
Fresh:28
Rotten:110
Average Rating:4.4/10
Consensus: Amelia takes the compelling raw materials of its subject’s life and does little with them, conventionally ticking off Earhart's accomplishments without exploring the soul of the woman.
Rated: PG [See Full Rating]
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:13-11-2009
Synopsis: Visionary. Lover. Dreamer. Fighter. Legend. Icon. AMELIA. An extraordinary life of adventure, celebrity and continuing mystery comes to light in AMELIA, a vast, thrilling account of legendary... [More]
Starring: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston
Director: Mira Nair
Reviews for Amelia
A biodrama about an extraordinary woman aviatrix who followed her passion and blazed a trail for others to do the same.
10/23/09
This film, coming 72 years after Earhart vanished -- plays it awfully safe.
10/23/09
Amelia isn't a terrible movie, but its greatest value will be as a history lesson rather than as entertainment.
10/23/09
Seldom has a bio's style clashed so deafeningly with its content.
10/23/09
Burns a lot of fuel over the idea that Earhart was not just a hero of the air but an original feminist -- an iconoclast in jodhpurs and a necktie whose addiction to the 'freedom' of flight was representative of womankind's yearning for independence...
10/23/09
The movie is as conventional a biopic as Earhart was an unconventional woman.
10/23/09
Amelia is not very good, and not very good in ways that collect and showcase all the familiar failings of the classic biopic.
10/23/09
Amelia modestly succeeds at inspiring its audience and provides a remarkably well-rounded role model for modern women, thanks to a terrific performance by Hilary Swank.
10/23/09
Period biopic is uplifting but doesn't truly soar.
10/23/09
Alas, excesses of any pleasurable kind are absent from this exasperatingly dull production.
10/23/09
Top CriticWe are continuously at the mercy of the reverential, underscored by ever-billowing crescendos of voluminous orchestrations. Someone want to turn the treacle down?
10/23/09
Swank is fake-freckled and bewigged and bears a striking resemblance to Amelia. It is too bad the character was not better written.
10/23/09
Critics may balk but Amelia is old fashioned in the best sense and soars as a big, beautiful and sweeping motion picture biography about a true American legend.
10/23/09
Every scene is glazed with a kind of Cheez Whiz glow.
10/23/09
a boring movie full of mockable dialogue, dreadful acting and long, supposedly poetic narration which could induce a coma if you don't have enough caffeine flowing through your veins.
10/23/09
Parental Content Review
10/23/09
A movie so generic that it could have been about anyone...like sitting through an endless series of story conferences, in which the life is slowly sifted out of the material.
10/23/09
Look, nobody's asking for a miniseries here, but at times the movie feels more like a History Channel documentary -- respectful to the point of reverential -- than a rip-snorting yarn.
10/23/09
The film discreetly tiptoes around rumors of Earhart's reputed bisexuality ("Maybe at one time," she says) and her relationship with aviation pioneer Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor impersonating a department-store dummy).
10/23/09
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