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New on DVD: 'Monsoon Wedding,' 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' (USA Today) - Mira Nair's exhilarating Monsoon Wedding and an essential documentary about those classic Ali-Frazier boxing matches are among this week's platinum picks on DVD.

'Amelia' movie review: Earhart film, like its heroine, never reaches destination (The Star-Ledger) - Ken Woroner/Fox SearchlightHilary Swank stars as the title character in Mira Nair's biopic about aviatrix Amelia Earhart. “Amelia” Movie Review -- “Of course,” one critic complained after an early screening of “Amelia,” “they left out how she was executed by...

The Wedding Song (2008) (New York Times) - The most popular movies among NYTimes.com readers. Two young women find that their differences bring them closer during a difficult time in this drama from writer and director Karin Albou.

Review: 'Amelia' (Los Angeles Times) - The aviatrix loses her personality in this superficial film. 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 ...

Film Review: The Wedding Song (Film Journal) - Karin Albou's sophomore feature may have some minor moments when its intensity dips, but it is a powerful and intimate portrayal of two young women in a part of the world where female roles are still most often secondary.

Review -- 'Amelia': the lady vanishes, or at least you wish she would (The Oregonian) - No mystery where this film about the famously disappeared aviatrix ends up: it crashes and burns from the first frame.

Review: 'Amelia' (Calendarlive.com) - The aviatrix loses her personality in this superficial film. History can weigh heavily on a filmmaker, and that is what happens with "Amelia," a disappointing rendering of the remarkable life of Amelia Earhart.

Amelia (Rolling Stone) - Starring: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor Review: The aerial photography in this biopic looks slick, as does two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank as the rangy pioneer aviatrix Amelia Earhart, who went missing in 1937 while trying to circumnavigate the globe in her flying machine. But, oh mama, the minute the characters open their mouths, the onslaught of clichés brings the movie down in ...

Michael Bialas: Concert Review: If you knew Suzy (Bogguss) like they know Suzy ... (The Huffington Post) - Planning to make a record of folk songs next, Suzy Bogguss hasn't released an album since 2007's jazzy Sweet Danger, but continues to earn her keep on the road.

Review: Despite strong cast, 'Amelia' is a biopic on autopilot (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) - Considering the risks Amelia Earhart took, losing her life in the call of aviation, Hilary Swank and director Mira Nair don't put much on the line in their film biography "Amelia."