
Two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank can’t give any lift to Amelia, a soggy, unengaging biopic of Amelia Earhart, the American aviatrix who rose to fame with her transatlantic flights in the 1930s but disappeared in a later attempt to circumnavigate the globe. An attractively packaged but dramatically inert hagiography, the film feels so utterly designed not to offend, shock or confuse any potential age group that it ends up saying nothing of consequence about its subject. For the full, original review, from Screen International, click here. (Fox Searchlight, PG, 111 minutes)