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(1 - 25) of 25 OFCS Rating: 24% Rotten Page   1   C "What the film offers is melodrama, more interested in the aviatrix's bedroom activities than her spirit. Amelia hunts for complexity, but it only achieves a tedious middle ground."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf "Amelia provides only a cursory look at Earhart's commercialization, more a way to delineate her marriage troubles than investigate her self-image or her treatment as a pop star."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2.5/5 "'Amelia' plays less like a movie and more like a timeline."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger 2.5/4 "Overly glorifies its human subject, cautious to get its hands dirty and dig beneath the surface of Earhart's public life. And yet, even so, Hilary Swank is a joy to watch."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman D+ "In the running for the dullest, most lifeless biopic of the decade."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider "Smotheringly conventional"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce C- "Comes off more like a museum exhibit than a vital drama...Amelia never takes flight, but it certainly crashes."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "A biodrama about an extraordinary woman aviatrix who followed her passion and blazed a trail for others to do the same."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2.5/4 "A by-the-book bio-pic."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy 2/4 "Stiff biopic of the legendary flier skims the surface of her achievements but never quite takes off."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito "Those expecting a stirring portrait of a feminist pioneer will be disappointed by the ethereal ambiguity of 'Amelia.'"   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   John P. McCarthy 2/5 "Told in final-flight flashback (naturally) with cumulus cloud scene wipes (of course!), Earhart’s life is reduced to a series of solemnized wide-screen tableaux populated by locale-specific extras acting as starstruck filler."   Time Out New York   Keith Uhlich C+ "Hilary Swank certainly looks the part and...fits the period well, ...but although her Amelia talks about her love of flight, Nair fails to really make us feel it."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 1.5/4 "If ... you have completed a third grade social studies class, this biopic will only tell you what you already know then tell you a third time but not before telling you a second time."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik "[A] quiet, reflective film... Earhart is not an icon or a symbol: she's a human being... [T]he assumption of autonomy... is a luxury rarely accorded to women in our pop culture, and it is wonderful to see here."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 4/5 "When (Swank) steps into the right role, she wears and inspires it like Denzel Washington."   Film Threat   Matthew Sorrento B- "It just never takes off."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow 1.5/4 "Amelia attempts the yeoman's task of recounting a tale about which it has virtually nothing to say."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager "Not so much a film as it is the world's dullest diorama brought to semi-life."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 2/5 "This terrific true story has been so overproduced that there's virtually no life left in it"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline C "Swank is fake-freckled and bewigged and bears a striking resemblance to Amelia. It is too bad the character was not better written."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 2/5 "A quiet, reserved, and unexpectedly small picture about an aviation pioneer whose historical legacy ... has become larger than life."   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell 3/4 "A fine tribute to an American pioneer, but I feel sure that Earhart's story merits, and would reward, a more searching and thoughtful exploration."   Christianity Today   Steven D. Greydanus 5/10 "Shallow and superficial, it's far better suited to the Biography channel than the big-screen."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger  (1 - 25) of 25 OFCS Rating: 24% Rotten Page   1