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.
3 April 1972, Wallingford, Connecticut, USA
22 May 1959, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
3 June 1951, San Antonio, Texas, USA
3 October 1969, Fullerton, California, USA
17 September 1965, Toledo, Ohio, USA
5 September 1946, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
9 July 1913, Minnesota, USA
28 August 1959, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
8 April 1951, Canada
8 May 1978, Menlo Park, California, USA
26 October 1975, Dallas, Texas, USA
14 May 1969, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
8 May 1976, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
12 May 1978, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
25 January 1956, Portland, Oregon, USA
28 January 1936, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
24 November 1975, Heidelberg, Germany
6 July 1953, Roslyn, New York, USA
29 December 1972, Lewisham, London, England, UK
21 July 1943, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
30 March 1942, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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).
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.
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.
July 23, 2007
Scorsese's most engaged and engaging filmmaking in a while.
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,...
February 03, 2010
This handsome movie is an oddly well-behaved one to come from the preternaturally energetic Scorsese.
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.
December 28, 2010
Good but not great, and not for younger kids.
February 08, 2007
All tabloid style gloss accessorized with brassy special effects, and bloated storytelling based loosely on period gossip.
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.
July 14, 2007
Its plot moves from event to event without a story driving it and the audience is left drifting along.
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.
