The aviatrix loses her personality in this superficial film.
di Betsy Sharkey The Los Angeles Times
History can weigh heavily on a filmmaker, and that is what happens with "Amelia," a disappointing rendering of the remarkable life of Amelia Earhart. The pioneering aviatrix lost in flight is a figure so iconic, and director Mira Nair so tentative with her legend, that all the reverence and tiptoeing around grounds a film that should have soared.
The life of Earhart, who burst on the scene in 1928 flying airplanes when they were still the province of men, is exactly the sort of saga Nair loves to tell. [...]
di Betsy Sharkey, articolo completo (5055 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 23 ottobre 2009