Now, Voyager
Warner Bros. | Release Date: October 31, 1942 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
70
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
The A.V. ClubDonna Bowman
With its bittersweet romance and air of tragic empowerment, Now, Voyager represents the pinnacle of the woman's picture. Read full review
88
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
Much-loved 1942 piece of super-romantic schmaltz. [19 Jul 2005, p.C3]
80
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
It's Grade-A schlock, but not without depth: critics have detected feminist overtones in this movie, one in which men prove eminently dispensable in the quest for happiness. Read full review
80
EmpireDavid Parkinson
A classic of the weepy genre so have some toilet roll handy. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineJeremiah Kipp
Now, Voyager is the stuff of young lovers and hare-brained idealists, and if it can feel pretty foolish at times, it’s unforgettable for how sincere and affectionate it is toward one particularly time-honored cliché: that only fools falls in love. Read full review
70
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
The women's weepie angle gets to be a bit of a slog later on, but it is all wrapped up as a mesmerically glittering package by Rapper's direction, Sol Polito's camerawork, and Max Steiner's lushly romantic score. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
A high-grade Bette Davis soap opera that finds her playing a repressed Boston spinster rescued by her suave psychiatrist (Paul Henried, who figures in the film's famous cigarette-lighting scene). [18 Dec 1988, p.5]
70
The New YorkerPauline Kael
The director, Irving Rapper, is just barely competent, and the action plods along, yet this picture is all of a piece, and if it were better it might not work at all. This way, it's a schlock classic.
63
LarsenOnFilmJosh Larsen
Now, Voyager may not have the fine balance of some of Davis’ best films—Jezebel is probably the place to go for that—but it’s still, in its stronger moments, a fine showcase for an iconic actress. Read full review
63
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
Not great filmmaking, but indispensable to students of 40s pop culture. Read full review
60
The New York TimesStaff (Not Credited)
For all its emotional hair-splitting, it fails to resolve its problems as truthfully as it pretends. In fact, a little more truth would have made the film a good deal shorter. Read full review
60
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
Now, Voyager, an excursion into psychiatry, is almost episodic in its writing. Read full review
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