The Aviator (2004)
With each height of success comes a different form of phobia and depression to conquer as such is the fate of Howard Hughes as he tries to overcome each day.
14 July 1980, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK
9 July 1913, Minnesota, USA
12 September 1931, Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
6 July 1953, Roslyn, New York, USA
12 December 1925, Reigate, Surrey, England, UK
8 May 1976, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
24 February 1979, Vallejo, California, USA
12 September 1982, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
3 October 1969, Fullerton, California, USA
October 06, 2016
This is high-style filmmaking wrapped up in a tormented hero whose soaring flights of greatness are matched by the mortal pull of his devils,...
August 07, 2008
It'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).
June 24, 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.
July 14, 2007
Its plot moves from event to event without a story driving it and the audience is left drifting along.
May 20, 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.
November 01, 2007
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.
April 21, 2005
This undoubtedly is the movie Scorsese set out to make, and he made it exceedingly well. Still, we can fault him for choosing to celebrate its subject instead of examining him.
September 26, 2005
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.
December 28, 2010
Good but not great, and not for younger kids.
February 08, 2007
All tabloid style gloss accessorized with brassy special effects, and bloated storytelling based loosely on period gossip.
February 03, 2010
This handsome movie is an oddly well-behaved one to come from the preternaturally energetic Scorsese.
July 23, 2007
Scorsese's most engaged and engaging filmmaking in a while.
