Amelia

"What rankles most about Amelia is the timidity and lack of imagination with which Nair approaches one of America's most exceptional and intriguing celebrity life stories."

"A solid and respectable but reticent biopic that always holds its subject at a distance. Swank is spot-on casting and the period detail’s impeccable but, unlike our heroine, the film never quite gets off the ground."

"Alas, excesses of any pleasurable kind are absent from this exasperatingly dull production."

"A perfectly sound biopic, well directed and acted, about an admirable woman. It confirmed for me Earhart's courage -- not only in flying, but in insisting on living her life outside the conventions of her time for well-behaved females. The next generation of American women grew up in her slipstream."

"Pioneering aviatrix's life was apparently quite dull"

"So a pioneering feminist in the hands of a feminist filmmaker should have been a perfect match. But like her subject, the filmmaker gets lost in the clouds."

"Most of all, Earhart wanted to be able to fly free as a bird above the clouds, and director Nair and star Swank make her quest not only understandable but truly impressive."

"Swank’s moving performance, the period dressing and beautiful planes all appeal, but dramatically it doesn’t really soar."