Mira Nair’s upcoming Academy Award’s bait “Amelia” is slipping down on the radar and leaving questions unanswered in people’s minds. While the film is beginning to hit theaters slowly, there is no official review up for the movie. This continues on with a large lack of press that could shine a light on the film’s quality past the assumed stellar work by two time Oscar winner Hilary Swank and perennial snubbed actor Richard Gere.  Today this film’s first official review has come in from The Hollywood Reporter’s own Ray Bennett: Freckle-faced, prairie-voiced and fiercely independent, Hilary Swank’s depiction of aviator Amelia Earhart in Mira Nair’s biographical film “Amelia” is of a high order. It ranks with recent real-life portrayals of Ray Charles by Jamie Foxx and Truman Capote by Philip Seymour Hoffman and could be similarly awards-bound. The classically structured bio will appeal to grown-ups, history buf…[...]

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First review in for Amelia