CRITICAL CONSENSUS

Mike Clark - USA Today

David Denby - New Yorker

Chris Barsanti - Film Threat

David Ansen - Newsweek

Ken Tucker - New York Magazine

Glenn Kenny - Premiere Magazine

Peter Travers - Rolling Stone

Michael Rechtshaffen - Hollywood Reporter

Kenneth Turan - LA Times

Liam Lacey - Globe & Mail

Lou Lumenick - NY Post

James Berardinelli - ReelViews

Mick LaSalle - SF Chronicle

Jami Bernard - NY Daily News

Manohla Dargis - NY Times

DUELING CRITICS

"Despite the film's sporadic lulls, both director and star are on full beam. The first and third hours of this 20th-century epic are as dazzling as big-scale movies get...It's the year's most exciting [movie] by a wide margin"

- Mike Clark

"[Director Martin] Scorsese has compromised his dark gifts for commercial palatability. He lavishes attention on the surfaces of Hughes's life...an approach that shows a director overly willing to attend to the surface of his talent instead of its depths"

- Manohla Dargis