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OFCS Rating: 89% Fresh |
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| "No movie directed by Martin Scorsese has ever felt more like work for hire." |
| Blogcritics.org |
| Alan Dale |
4.5/5 | "Un mundo donde la cabina es pequeña, la velocidad y el ritmo acelerados, no hay cabida para la razón, y la vida se vive en un instante." |
| Cinenganos |
| Alex Ramirez |
| "In this stunning period biopic, Scorsese exposes the American dream to the law of gravity." |
| Movie Gazette |
| Anton Bitel |
3/5 | "Millions of dollars were wasted in Hughes' stumble to infamy, and I'm hard-pressed to get too upset by his romancing starlets or peeing in a bottle." |
| Freeze Dried Movies |
| Brian Juergens |
A | "THE AVIATOR is almost impossibly fertile and rich, but always Scorsese marshals his resources to get inside Hughes' head." |
| AboutFilm.com |
| Carlo Cavagna |
4.5/5 | "...an aggressive, overwhelming piece of cinema that raises the year's cinematic G.P.A. all by itself." |
| Film Threat |
| Chris Barsanti |
4/5 | "leave it to Martin Scorsese to spin the eccentric's life into a more coherent -- if sprawling -- mass" |
| Filmcritic.com |
| Christopher Null |
| "The film's framing of Hughes' personal decline into a critique of U.S.-style arrogance, excess, and territorial pissing makes him the hero." |
| PopMatters |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
5/5 | "[It's] a dazzling bit of Hollywood biography that belongs on the short list of [Scorsese's] finest works" |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| David Cornelius |
C | "Surrounded by talented performances, DiCaprio nearly pulls off a trick as effective as the illusive world cast by Howard Hughes: it almost looks like he can really act." |
| EDGE Boston |
| David Foucher |
3.5/4 | "...a highly stylized and satisfying chronicle of flawed human life" |
| Cinemaphile.org |
| David Keyes |
B | "Highly entertaining." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
2.5/4 | "A solid, albeit flawed, effort. Stellar work by Leonardo DiCaprio, but Cate Blanchett's masterful, Oscar-worthy performance steals the film." |
| TheMovieBoy.com |
| Dustin Putman |
B+ | "Amongst contemporary American filmmakers, it can only be said perhaps of Martin Scorsese alone that a good movie from him is a disappointment." |
| FilmJerk.com |
| Edward Havens |
3/5 | "A cierta altura, El Aviador es cine puro, o las herramientas del cine aprovechadas como nunca al servicio de una historia." |
| Uruguay Total |
| Enrique Buchichio |
B | "This is grand Hollywood entertainment in the old-school style, so glistening and dazzling that its flaws are washed away in a sea of glitter." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
3.5/4 | "Scorsese only allegorically gets to kick people while they’re down but possesses enough vision to keep the film on its feet, charging forward with nary a lull in the narrative" |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Erik Childress |
A- | "The Aviator takes what is known about Howard Hughes, transforms it, confounds it, makes it into cinema and art. It transcends history." |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
3/4 | "A masterful and stylistic epic concocted by the skillful Scorsese and his trademark visionary flourishes of detail and determination." |
| Movie Eye |
| Frank Ochieng |
B+ | "Psychologically superficial, but the filmmaking razzmatazz makes it great fun to watch." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
4/5 | "Charts three decades in the life of Howard Hughes, a forerunner of today's successful businessmen who love power, money, and the chance to do whatever they want.
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| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
3/4 | "A good, but not great, filmed biography, and continues Scorsese's recent flirtation with mediocrity." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
4/4 | "it is testament to Scorsese's vision and skill that he captures Hughes and all his contradictions in a rip-roaring CinemaScope portrait that is both intimate and epic" |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
5/5 | "Scorsese's Howard Hughes biopic is a riveting story of genius and torment, talent and arrogance, passion and madness." |
| Netflix |
| James Rocchi |
3.5/4 | "The Aviator feels like old-fashioned Hollywood with a bracing jolt of Scorsese's cinematic flair" |
| Perihelion Journal |
| Jay Antani |
3/4 | "Howard Hughes’ vibrant life makes for a worthy biopic that Martin Scorsese crafts in glamorous style." |
| Palo Alto Weekly |
| Jeanne Aufmuth |
10/10 | "Sees the portrait of a man as the illustration of the strongest facets of his personality, not the recounting of important events in his life." |
| ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
| Jeffrey Chen |
B | "The Aviator is a marvel to behold, and one is quickly convinced that Scorsese can take even the most threadbare screenplay and make it bold and immediate." |
| Flipside Movie Emporium |
| Jeremiah Kipp |
| "Scorsese has dreamed up an ingenious method of specifying the period — he’s printed each sequence so that it matches up with the color film process available at the time ..." |
| Pajiba |
| Jeremy C. Fox |
88/100 | "A little clunky, and firmly in the realm of cinematic fantasy, The Aviator is, nevertheless, a return-to-form for Scorsese." |
| FilmFocus |
| Joe Utichi |
7/10 | "Regardless of the fact that The Aviator may not be Scorsese's best work, it is unquestionably a creative piece of moviemaking." |
| DVDTown.com |
| John J. Puccio |
| "Masterfully directed, intelligently written, beautifully acted, and always engaging, The Aviator is a true Hollywood movie." |
| Light Views |
| John Larsen |
7/10 | "Isn’t nearly as enjoyable as Gangs of New York, though it is flawed in many of the same ways." |
| Planet Sick-Boy |
| Jon Popick |
3.5/4 | "'Gran estilo visual, elenco multiestelar, una estupenda banda sonora y la dirección de un inmortal del cine, la hacen una experiencia fílmica más que interesante y compleja'" |
| Moviola |
| Jorge Avila Andrade |
3/5 | "full review in Greek" |
| Movies for the Masses |
| Joseph Proimakis |
| "If the folks who made Hollywood were going to make a movie today it would be made like The Aviator." |
| 3BlackChicks Review |
| Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel |
4/5 | "Solid piece of filmmaking...Leonardo seems too young but he works it, and Cate Blanchett is a fabulous, eerie Katherine Hepburn." |
| Cinerina |
| Karina Montgomery |
4.0/4.0 | "...the microscope is turned on Hughes himself to reveal a man who’s shortcomings may have been his biggest asset and certainly were his private hell." |
| MovieCrypt.com |
| Kevin A. Ranson |
3/5 | "Brisk, glossy and gloriously art-directed, Scorsese's lavish biopic is a pop trifle, engaging but not compelling." |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
4/4 | "In the hands of Martin Scorsese, the story of Howard Hughes becomes a great American tragedy." |
| Mark Reviews Movies |
| Mark Dujsik |
A | "This is a thrilling picture that merges [Scorsese's] gritty style and his adoration of old-fashioned Hollywood. The production design alone makes the film a must-see." |
| Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema |
| Mark Pfeiffer |
7/10 | "Instead of showing the inner self of
the man, we learn little more than we could have
from newspaper clippings." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Mark R. Leeper |
3.5/4 | "Feels like a whole, complete movie, without oversimplifying Hughes' life" |
| Movie Habit |
| Marty Mapes |
| "[Takes] few chances but bring[s]... Hughes to life so perfectly that you can forgive it... a thoroughly captivating three hours at the movies... three hours that, heh, fly by." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
4.5/5 | "[Scorsese has] made a three-hour epic film that doesn't feel like an epic. It feels like a breeze, a fast, loose, fun film that doesn't feel like work." |
| Goatdog's Movies |
| Michael W. Phillips, Jr. |
4/4 | "This is not the first film about Howard Hughes's life, but it’s certainly the best." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
B | "Like the life it depicts, it is uneven and fascinating.
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| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
3.5/4 | "A stirring depiction of a great man’s tragic attempt to convince himself of future triumphs that would never materialize." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Nick Schager |
5/5 | "Scorsese conduz o filme com competência singular, mantendo a narrativa sempre focada e utilizando de forma fascinante as cores em cada uma das cenas." |
| Cinema em Cena |
| Pablo Villaca |
4.5/5 | "Scorsese uses camera angles, editing choices, playful colours, visual effects and his remarkable cast to maximum effect" |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
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OFCS Rating: 89% Fresh |
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