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The Aviator (2004)
A biopic depicting phenomenal public success contrasts with private behaviors close to madness: Howard Hughes from the late 1920s to the late 1940s.
2 March 1963, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
3 October 1969, Fullerton, California, USA
19 March 1962, Berwyn, Illinois, USA
3 January 1970, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
December 3, 1983 in Busteni, Romania
10 May 1956, Québec, Canada
3 April 1972, Wallingford, Connecticut, USA
3 April 1973, Santa Cruz, California, USA
12 September 1931, Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
8 April 1951, Canada
13 November 1953, Monroe, Georgia, USA
11 March 1952, Brooklyn, New York, USA
14 July 1980, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK
29 December 1972, Lewisham, London, England, UK
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).
February 08, 2007
All tabloid style gloss accessorized with brassy special effects, and bloated storytelling based loosely on period gossip.
July 14, 2007
Its plot moves from event to event without a story driving it and the audience is left drifting along.
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,...
July 23, 2007
Scorsese's most engaged and engaging filmmaking in a while.
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 03, 2010
This handsome movie is an oddly well-behaved one to come from the preternaturally energetic Scorsese.
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.
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.
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.
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.
