A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
It has beautiful cinematography, a star performance that is shocking in its authenticity, a careful eye for nuance and detail and an irresistible blend of action and romance that should spell automatic success.
– Rex Reed,
New York Observer,
10 Dec 2009
fresh:
Inoffensive, arcane and ultimately rather sweet, 'Amelia' is one to take your grandmother to.
– Tom Huddlestone,
Time Out,
13 Nov 2009
rotten:
Wwhy does such an exciting life make such a dull movie?
– A.O. Scott,
At the Movies,
26 Oct 2009
rotten:
Amelia is handsome yet predictable and high-minded -- not a dud, exactly, but too proper, too reserved for its swaggering subject.
– David Denby,
New Yorker,
26 Oct 2009
rotten:
It'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.