Leonardo DiCaprio and Cate Blanchett respectively light up the screen when they are together.

Full Review | Feb 20, 2024

The Aviator is an adequate biopic lead by capable performers but the exhilaration sped to puberty level sensuality and hollow thrills.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 15, 2024

The Aviator starts strong but feels lengthy, with some accents bordering on comedic. Hughes's struggles could be better portrayed, yet it remains a worthy watch.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 15, 2024

Simultaneously, he deconstructs two icons of masculinity and success, ultimately revealing within both an undercurrent of socialization and conditioning...

Full Review | Dec 12, 2023

The colossal three-hour runtime is tedious, even with director Martin Scorsese’s dependable handling of drama and strained relationships.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 8, 2023

Martin Scorseses epic biography of the life of Howard Hughes is his love-letter to the old-Hollywood bio-pic. 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...

Full Review | Mar 12, 2022

The Aviator soars high because of both Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Full Review | Jan 4, 2022

Bringing Hughes' life to the big screen was a task for giants. The film doesn't feel like an Scorsese movie, it has an audacious editing, homaging the Hollywood era it takes place on. DiCaprio and Blanchett are simply spectacular. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 1, 2021

What prominent individual's life could not be made to shine or at least improved markedly if all the unpleasant portions were subtracted?

Full Review | Feb 15, 2021

At the epicentre of this movie maelstrom is an assured and adroit performance by Leonardo DiCaprio.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 1, 2020

What constitutes risk in acting? What Blanchett does here as Hepburn, daring to take on an icon in the same medium for which she was known and celebrated.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | May 11, 2020

The Aviator is a flawed but incredibly passionate and entertaining film befitting a character as flamboyant as Hughes.

Full Review | Jan 29, 2020

Leonardo DiCaprio meticulously depicts the maverick entrepreneur in all his guises -- from the off, he cleverly conveys (through body language) the ailments that would beset Hughes -- noticeably OCD and deafness. It's a stunning performance.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 23, 2019

Is really little more than three hours of the director polishing his mantel in anticipation of an Oscar.

Full Review | Apr 1, 2019

The dramatic conceit that a great, obsessive personality begets an obsessive, dysfunctional personal life and frail mental well-being just isn't that nuanced or tragic.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 27, 2019

The Aviator does make for a rather fascinating and compelling stand-alone story about an industrious, fastidious, obsessive man...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 8, 2019

Solidly entertaining and visually lush, but this is uncharacteristically safe territory for a filmmaker who relishes risk and grittiness.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 25, 2018

Good but not great, and not for younger kids.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2010

This handsome movie is an oddly well-behaved one to come from the preternaturally energetic Scorsese.

Full Review | Feb 3, 2010

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).

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2008