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Amelia (2009)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:3
Rotten:25
Average Rating:4.2/10
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:Oct 23, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $13,986,210
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
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Reviews for Amelia
Top CriticAmelia is handsome yet predictable and high-minded -- not a dud, exactly, but too proper, too reserved for its swaggering subject.
10/26/09
Top CriticIt’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.
10/26/09
Top CriticSeldom has a bio's style clashed so deafeningly with its content.
10/23/09
Top CriticThe movie is as conventional a biopic as Earhart was an unconventional woman.
10/23/09
Top CriticAmelia 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
Top CriticAlas, excesses of any pleasurable kind are absent from this exasperatingly dull production.
10/23/09
Top CriticLook, 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
Top CriticThe 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
Top Critic"Who wants a life imprisoned in safety?" Amelia asks in a voice-over. And you want to shout, "This movie does, honey." There’s not a real or spontaneous minute in it.
10/23/09
Top CriticDirector Mira Nair dresses that up with visual grace, with shots of clouds and sky that are beautiful and elusive enough to escape the tinge of cliche. But the basic bones of the story are the problem here.
10/23/09
Top CriticIt leaves the odd impression of being merely a very long trailer for a film you'd actually love to see.
10/23/09
Top CriticCourting Oscar with unseemly lust, while also promoting Earhart as an early feminist, the film strives too hard to be profound and not enough to be merely human.
10/23/09
Top Critichis embalmed drama is a ghost from the '80s, a decade that regularly produced surprise-free, caramelized biopics. The airless Amelia is missing practically everything.
10/23/09
Top CriticAmelia goes airborne but never fully soars. It's hampered by a too-reverential portrait of the record-breaking aviator.
10/23/09
Top CriticAmelia leaves you wondering how its abundantly gifted director, Mira Nair, and its Oscar-winning star, Hilary Swank, could have been complicit in such clumsiness.
10/22/09
Top CriticA by-the-book bio-pic.
10/22/09
Top CriticAmelia is a perfectly sound biopic, well directed and acted, about an admirable woman.
10/22/09
Top CriticWith any luck this biopic of Amelia Earhart will also vanish without a trace.
10/22/09
Top CriticHistory can weigh heavily on a filmmaker, and that is what happens with Amelia, a disappointing rendering of the remarkable life of Amelia Earhart.
10/22/09
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