Radioactive

"At times audacious, at others irritatingly obfuscating, Radioactive feels like a half-life story and not the fulsome Madame Curie biopic one might have hoped for."

"While the story treads familiar territory to anyone who's seen a biopic about a famous Great Man, director Marjane Satrapi elegantly considers the cost at the heart of Curie's discoveries, and Rosamund Pike delivers a truly stirring performance."

"Radioactive is disappointingly paint-by-numbers, and often laughably ill-conceived."

"A timely reminder of this exceptional woman's achievements."

"If this film does lift up Marie Curie, it does so for a two-dimensional Marie Curie of its own creation. Everything that should make her a richer character is fake."

"Satrapi collapses a century of innovation and destruction from the discovery of chemotherapy to Chernobyl into a flat timeline that Curie can see right through as though looking at an x-ray. In those moments of stylistic imagination, the film glows."