That could have been a good movie, but predictable. Mike Nichols' Silkwood is not predictable.... We realize this is a lot more movie than perhaps we were expecting.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Michael Blowen
Fueled by Meryl Streep's performance in the title role, energized by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen's script and tempered by Mike Nichols' understated direction, Silkwood is a brilliant movie that puts art above polemics, and the facts above speculation. [14 Dec 1983]Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Vincent Canby
Silkwood is a very moving work about the raising of the consciousness of one woman of independence, guts and sensitivity.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Schickel
There is none of the affectionate respect for working-class life and values that marked the similar, and far superior, "Norma Rae," nor any of that film's sense of felt reality either.Read Full Review »