News Source: Salon
| about 1 month ago
23 PDT Hilary Swank has the face, and the swagger, to play Amelia Earhart...It's a big story, and a rich one, particularly when you factor in the complexities of Earhart's relationship with her publicist husband, George Putnam, and her extramarital...
News Source: The Fresno Bee
| about 1 month ago
You know you should pay attention, but it all seems way too familiar. The script by Ron Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan uses Earhart's final flight as the film framework. That's the safe and bland choice, since Earhart's disappearance at sea has been...
News Source: USA Today
| about 1 month ago
It's hampered by a too-reverential portrait of the record-breaking aviator. Hilary Swank is a plucky Amelia Earhart , the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, and director Mira Nair has fashioned a sweeping and handsome film. But it falls...
News Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
| about 1 month ago
In her place, "Amelia" presents a protofeminist with a frozen smile spouting free-as-a-bird slogans from a bird-brained script. The film struggles to stay aloft, and may soon vanish, like its namesake, without a trace. But below and beyond the...
News Source: The New York Times
| about 1 month ago
Romance is in the air in “Amelia,” or at least in the score, which works hard to inject some emotional coloring into the proceedings. The music screams (sobs) 1940s big-screen melodramatic excess and beautiful suffering. Alas, excesses of any...
News Source: Seattle Times
| about 1 month ago
Movie review "Amelia," with Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, Joe Anderson. Directed by Mira Nair, from a screenplay by Ron Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan, based on the books "East to the Dawn" by Susan Butler and "The...