Silkwood
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: December 14, 1983 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
1
Negative:
1
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100
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
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
100
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
Mike Nichols, in his first venture into movies since "The Fortune," elicited superlative performances from the actors, particularly Streep and stage veteran Sudi Bond. Read full review
100
Boston GlobeMichael 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]
80
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
A very fine biographical drama. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay Scott
Silkwood is a friendly, kooky and caring film. [09 Dec 1983]
70
The New York TimesVincent Canby
Silkwood is a very moving work about the raising of the consciousness of one woman of independence, guts and sensitivity. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Wonderful performances steal the show in this film based on the real life of Karen Silkwood, a worker in a plutonium factory in Oklahoma, whose health and safety concerns prompt her public exposure of the company's practices which, in turn, lead to dire personal consequences. Read full review
67
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Despite the drawbacks of the Silkwood screenplay, written by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen, this is a directorial triumph for a filmmaker who has artistically matured during his absence from the screen these past several years. Read full review
40
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
Little remains in this true-life story of a nuclear worker's mysterious death other than some prefab antinuke, profeminist rhetoric - soft-pedaled, thankfully, but still strong enough to testify to the basic smugness of the project. Read full review
20
TimeRichard 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
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