Rotten
This handsome movie is an oddly well-behaved one to come from the preternaturally energetic Scorsese.
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
The Aviator
Some men dream the future. He built it.
2004 · 2h 50m · PG-13
Drama
Directed by
Martin Scorsese
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The Aviator
Overview
A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Director and cast
- Martin Scorsese Director
- Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes
- Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn
- Kate Beckinsale as Ava Gardner
- John C. Reilly as Noah Dietrich
- Alec Baldwin as Juan Trippe
- Alan Alda as Senator Ralph Owen Brewster
- Ian Holm as Professor Fitz
- Danny Huston as Jack Frye
- Gwen Stefani as Jean Harlow
- Jude Law as Errol Flynn
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
86%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
David Ansen, Newsweek
Fresh
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.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
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.
Nathan Rabin, AV Club
Fresh
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.
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post
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