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The Aviator
Howard Hughes life in the movie might have seemed perfect giving his level of success and fame to the world but inside he's a total wreck battling depression almost leading to madness.
14 May 1962, Rome, Lazio, Italy
22 July 1973, Rhinebeck, New York, USA
29 August 1980, Tucson, Arizona, USA
16 November 1999
8 May 1976, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
29 December 1972, Lewisham, London, England, UK
December 3, 1983 in Busteni, Romania
12 May 1976, Los Angeles, California, USA
28 August 1990, Los Angeles, California, USA
April 25, 1971 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
3 April 1958, Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA
1966, Montréal, Québec, Canada
24 May 1950
4 December 1980
December 28, 2010
Good but not great, and not for younger kids.
July 23, 2007
Scorsese's most engaged and engaging filmmaking in a while.
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.
February 08, 2007
All tabloid style gloss accessorized with brassy special effects, and bloated storytelling based loosely on period gossip.
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 14, 2007
Its plot moves from event to event without a story driving it and the audience is left drifting along.
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.
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).
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.
February 03, 2010
This handsome movie is an oddly well-behaved one to come from the preternaturally energetic Scorsese.
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.