A movie about the success of renowned public figure whose fame keeps ascending but unknown to the world he battles his fears behind closed doors causing him depression.
22 July 1973, Rhinebeck, New York, USA
24 May 1950
2 March 1963, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
11 April 1984, Bakersfield, California, USA
15 June 1971
12 September 1931, Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
19 March 1962, Berwyn, Illinois, USA
12 December 1925, Reigate, Surrey, England, UK
26 July 1973, Finsbury Park, London, England, UK
10 May 1956, Québec, Canada
24 May 1965, Chicago, Illinois, USA
4 December 1980
6 July 1953, Roslyn, New York, USA
8 May 1978, Menlo Park, California, USA
28 August 1990, Los Angeles, California, USA
1938, Wimbledon, Surrey, England, UK
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,...
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.
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.
February 03, 2010
This handsome movie is an oddly well-behaved one to come from the preternaturally energetic Scorsese.
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 23, 2007
Scorsese's most engaged and engaging filmmaking in a while.
July 14, 2007
Its plot moves from event to event without a story driving it and the audience is left drifting along.
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).
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.
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.
