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

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

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

Hilary Swank is forced to deliver dialogue that sounds as if it was written in Chinese and then translated into English by a computer.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 13, 2009

A tinny and barnacled affair, showcasing a peculiarly awful performance from Hilary Swank.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 13, 2009

If you're the kind of person who deplores the modern vogue for debunking historical figures, and who welcomes the opportunity to indulge in heroic feats and lush landscapes... then this is the film for you.

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

Nowhere is there any sign of the passion that Amelia must have had.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 13, 2009

Woodenly acted and grinningly bland, this Amelia Earhart life story turns Hilary Swank and Richard Gere, playing the aviatrix's publisher husband, into virtual Thunderbirds puppets.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 13, 2009

The look of the movie - suave Art Deco lines and 1930s fashions - is blameless, though helpless to counter the Ron Bass screenplay, guaranteed to drain the life out of any drama it touches.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 13, 2009

It fails to engage on an emotional level, like a docu-drama or a made-for-온라인카지노추천 movie. And Amelia always feels exactly like Hilary Swank wearing false teeth and talking in a funny voice.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 13, 2009

Last time Swankatron went a-courting awards, she did so with the amazing Million Dollar Baby. But this biopic of legendary pilot Amelia Earhart is a hundred times blander.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 13, 2009

Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank gives Earhart a convincing Kansas twang but little else in a performance that is unaccountably stiff.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 12, 2009

Towards the end, as the story returns to that round-the-world flight, the suspense kicks in, and Swank's performance comes into its own.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 11, 2009

Its insights are mostly superficial in nature, and where I was hoping for complexity and nuance all I received were melodramatic platitudes that did nothing to enlighten me to the driving force behind this woman's desires.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 6, 2009

A fine tribute to an American pioneer, but I feel sure that Earhart's story merits, and would reward, a more searching and thoughtful exploration.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 31, 2009

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 30, 2009

Wwhy does such an exciting life make such a dull movie?

Full Review | Oct 26, 2009

Amelia is handsome yet predictable and high-minded -- not a dud, exactly, but too proper, too reserved for its swaggering subject.

| Oct 26, 2009

It's all so glancing and superficial that the movie doesn't seem to have a present tense. It goes by like coming attractions. It is, however, a treasury of bad biopic dialogue.

| Oct 26, 2009

Directed by Mira Nair and executive-produced by its star Hilary Swank, the movie seems oddly preoccupied with the audience's approval for its subject.

| Oct 23, 2009