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The Aviator (2004)
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Reviews Counted:212
Fresh:186
Rotten:26
Average Rating:7.8/10
Consensus: Highly evocative of the period, Scorcese's biopic of Howard Hughes is being hailed as another excellent film from the master.
Theatrical Release: Dec 17, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $102.6M
Synopsis: A biographical chronicle which charts the early years of famous tycoon, Howard Hughes (1905-1976), whose eclectic career spanned across everything... [More]
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly
Director: Martin Scorsese
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REVIEWS FOR THE AVIATOR
This handsome movie is an oddly well-behaved one to come from the preternaturally energetic Scorsese.
Feb 3, 2010
Top CriticIt’s all rather sprawling and a bit disjointed, but Scorsese’s vigorous pacing and eye for detail hold it all together and provide a vivid setting for DiCaprio’s masterful performance (his best work yet).
Aug 7, 2008
This almost-great epic has one foot in legend: it's a vision of an American titan that could have sprung from the insides of Hughes's own obsessive, perfectionist head.
Nov 1, 2007
Top CriticScorsese's most engaged and engaging filmmaking in a while.
Jul 23, 2007
Its plot moves from event to event without a story driving it and the audience is left drifting along.
Jul 14, 2007
All tabloid style gloss accessorized with brassy special effects, and bloated storytelling based loosely on period gossip.
Feb 8, 2007
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Oct 3, 2006
It's almost predictable in the way it delivers the cinematic goods, yet there's no denying that it is a compelling and entertaining look at a larger-than-life individual.
Sep 1, 2006
The Aviator feels like old-fashioned Hollywood with a bracing jolt of Scorsese's cinematic flair
Aug 19, 2006
Despite a pacy, technically brilliant but otherwise slightly ordinary first half-hour or so, Scorsese’s Howard Hughes movie is his best since The Age of Innocence.
Jun 24, 2006
Scorsese gives us a lot more than the Charles Foster Kane of the clouds. He keeps focus on Hughes, the dreamer, who continually reached out, grabbed the future and pulled it toward him.
Jan 17, 2006
It's a measure of The Aviator's complexity and ambiguity that it can be read equally as a celebration of rugged, capitalist individualism and as a leftist critique of cutthroat free-market competition.
Sep 26, 2005
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Jul 5, 2005
Beneath the glossy surface there's a niggling lack of depth, but otherwise this is a grand, impressive Tinseltown drama.
Jun 25, 2005
A tremendous success.
Jun 2, 2005
The Aviator is more than entertaining and engrossing enough to keep you interested ... for at least 130 minutes or so.
May 24, 2005
Its primary appeal is its speed: It rushes along, from scandal to air crash to movie romance to Senate hearing, each anecdote well realized but never tarried over.
May 20, 2005
Top CriticRegardless of the fact that The Aviator may not be Scorsese's best work, it is unquestionably a creative piece of moviemaking.
May 13, 2005
If the folks who made Hollywood were going to make a movie today it would be made like The Aviator.
Apr 27, 2005
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March 26, 2007:
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February 26, 2007:
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