The Aviator

3.00
    The Aviator
    2004

    Synopsis

    A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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    Cast

    • Leonardo DiCaprioHoward Hughes
    • Cate BlanchettKatharine Hepburn
    • Kate BeckinsaleAva Gardner
    • John C. ReillyNoah Dietrich
    • Alec BaldwinJuan Trippe
    • Alan AldaSenator Ralph Owen Brewster
    • Ian HolmProfessor Fitz
    • Danny HustonJack Frye
    • Gwen StefaniJean Harlow
    • Jude LawErrol Flynn

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Variety

      An enormously entertaining slice of biographical drama, The Aviator flies like one of Howard Hughes' record-setting speed airplanes.
    • 100

      The New Yorker

      Brilliantly entertaining.
    • 90

      Newsweek

      DiCaprio is astonishing.
    • 90

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      The result is an admirably bumpy ride of a biopic, a rare one that leaves you feeling not safe but bracingly unsettled.
    • 80

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Scorsese has crafted a rip-roaringly gorgeous-looking, beautifully acted biographical epic. But while firing on all cylinders, there's something oddly distancing about the picture.
    • 80

      The A.V. Club

      A frenzied, sometimes overreaching biopic that paints in bold colors on a huge canvas, the film stars a never-better Leonardo DiCaprio--as perfectly cast here as he was miscast in "Gangs."
    • 75

      ReelViews

      A flawed but entertaining (and perhaps informative) tale.
    • 75

      Entertainment Weekly

      Scorsese, I think, is so invested in making The Aviator upbeat and rousing that the movie never quite reveals, the way that "Kinsey" or "Ray" or "A Beautiful Mind" or even a good E! True Hollywood Story do, how its hero's vision and his grand torments could be flip sides of the same temperament.

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