Amelia
Fox Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: October 23, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
37
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 34 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
14
Negative:
11
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
EmpireAngie Errigo
Swank’s moving performance, the period dressing and beautiful planes all appeal, but dramatically it doesn’t really soar. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
A frustratingly old-school, Hollywood-style, inspirational biopic about Amelia Earhart that doesn't trust a viewer's independent assessment of the famous woman pictured on the screen. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Distressingly ordinary for such an extraordinary subject. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
The film's basic material, that is the history, is not without interest. And it must be admitted that every so often - for about 10 seconds every 10 minutes - we get a hint of the movie they wanted to make and hoped they were making: One about the thrill of early aviation and the promise of a young century. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
Amelia is the Mack truck of flight. Heavy and lumbering, it delivers the goods, but there's not an ounce of magic in the thing. Read full review
50
New York PostLou Lumenick
A lazy coffee-table book of a movie, Read full review
42
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
Perhaps Nair believes that heroism in our tabloid era has become degraded. If so, she overcorrected. Amelia is so pure in heart that it slides right off the screen. Read full review
40
Time OutKeith Uhlich
There’s nothing more boring than a life embalmed with halfhearted Hollywood bombast, which only makes the film’s fleeting pleasures stand out all the more. Read full review
40
NPRBob Mondello
The result is verisimilitude without engagement -- a risk-taker's story told entirely without narrative risk -- and a movie that consequently never takes flight. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesBetsy Sharkey
So a pioneering feminist in the hands of a feminist filmmaker should have been a perfect match. But like her subject, the filmmaker gets lost in the clouds. Read full review
40
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Amelia is a stunted epic, an ambitious and handsome-looking picture that tells its story in the dullest, most confusing way possible. Read full review
40
SlateDana Stevens
It's enough to make you wish someone would make a movie about her. Read full review
40
The New YorkerDavid Denby
Amelia is handsome yet predictable and high-minded--not a dud, exactly, but too proper, too reserved for its swaggering subject. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones
Most devastating to the film’s effectiveness is its inability to convey that one essential to the story of Amelia Earhart: the tangible pleasures of flying. Read full review
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