Earhart, a rebellious obsessive with an active distaste for societal convention, ends up feeling flat in practice.

| Feb 4, 2021

Sorry, Hilary. There won't be any awards coming your way for this year.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 1, 2020

Seasoned director Mira Nair goes way off the rails in almost every way-from the lack of chemistry in Earhart and Putnam's seeming relationship of convenience to the final heart-wrenching mystery of Amelia's disappearance.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 6, 2018

[Amelia Earhart] must have been a fascinating woman - but you wouldn't know it watching the slick but unsatisfying Amelia.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 1, 2018

These have to be some of the least exhilarating flight scenes ever committed to film, as Swank looks as if she has been put in a box in a studio and told to imagine that she is up in the air.

| Nov 1, 2018

While Amelia doesn't crash and burn, the new biopic of Amelia Earhart fails to soar as high as it should, given its fascinating subject.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 14, 2018

Amelia is not a movie to disenchant, it is simply not a film that will go down in history... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 15, 2018

Unfortunately, the drama is nil, and the laughs come thick and fast.

| Original Score: D | Jan 13, 2014

As a rule, biopics are really hard to do, and that's because it's almost impossible to strike the perfect balance between truth and drama.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 21, 2012

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 24, 2011

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

Stuart Dryburgh's sweeping panoramas of Canada and Cape Town %u2013 standing in for Nairobi, Papua New Guinea and Hawaii %u2013 deserve to be enjoyed on the big screen.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 4, 2010

Feels like a tomb, lending itself to a slow, quiet pace that's possibly meant to be reflective but is instead dirgelike.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Feb 12, 2010

While Amelia was no airhead, the film flies above the fray, barely skimming the surface of a life and time, including traumatic world wars, the Great Depression and her mystery disappearance.

| Feb 6, 2010

It has beautiful cinematography, a star performance that is shocking in its authenticity, a careful eye for nuance and detail and an irresistible blend of action and romance that should spell automatic success.

Full Review | Dec 10, 2009

Watching Ms. Swank struggle to emote through carefully-patterned enunciation is an exercise in patience.

| Original Score: C- | Dec 6, 2009

Never takes off.

| Original Score: C | Nov 28, 2009

Amelia provides only a cursory look at Earhart's commercialization, more a way to delineate her marriage troubles than investigate her self-image or her treatment as a pop star.

| Nov 19, 2009

When it takes to the skies Amelia really soars with thrilling recreations of Earhart's solo flights but when it returns to earth all that remains is soap opera.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 13, 2009

Swank's moving performance, the period dressing and beautiful planes all appeal, but dramatically it doesn't really soar.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 13, 2009