The incredible true story of Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her Nobel Prize-winning work that changed the world.... (Full plot summary below)
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The incredible true story of Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her Nobel Prize-winning work that changed the world.
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| Arizona RepublicShaena MontanariOverall, Radioactive is a fitting tribute that is not entirely glowing (outside of the bottle of radium Curie takes to bed every night), but rather an honest and touching depiction of one of the finest scientists to ever live. |
| Paste MagazineJoelle MoniqueLife, death, science, mysticism, love and hate blend together to reveal depths of an internationally renowned genius. Deeply personal, sometimes tipping into the experimental, Radioactive is like no biographical feature I’ve ever seen. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSallePike’s own commitment is wonderful to witness. Radioactive is a good movie, a bit more imaginative than most (at several points, the movie takes a quick leap into the future to show the various ways radioactivity has been used, for good and for ill), but Pike makes it something to see, simply by giving it everything. |
| The New York TimesManohla DargisRadioactive, a thoughtful, very watchable fictionalized portrait of Marie Curie, tries hard to nudge the halo off its subject. Given her endeavors and accolades — including two Nobel Prizes — this simple, humanizing effort proves tough but also feels necessary. |
| The Film StageJared Mobarak[Satrapi] does what she can to give some life to Thorne’s rather staid screenplay, but even that can’t stop the film from risking its audience’s attention with by-the-numbers plotting. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversNever mind the curveballs that Radioactive throws audiences on its defiantly unconventional journey into a defiantly unconventional life. Maria Salomea Skłodowska Curie has been done proud. |
| TimeStephanie ZacharekA flawed movie with life in its veins is better than a pristine one that’s dead on arrival. Satrapi made her name with the autobiographical comic book Persepolis, which she later adapted into a marvelous animated film. She brings an animator’s touch to Radioactive, an often fanciful-looking picture that nevertheless holds tight to its dignity. |
| VarietyAmy NicholsonAs startling as it is to see the beloved scientist hated in her time, that we’re able to see this headstrong legend as a sexual being at all is a credit to how much Pike gradually humanizes her as a woman, while never pleading for our pity. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattA film whose big ideas strain against the staid outlines of traditional screen storytelling — though budget alone can't be blamed for its odd jumps and tonal twists, from earnest biography to magical realism and back again. |
| The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungPike creates an admirable if flawed Marie whose graceful womanhood battles with her fears of being exploited or bypassed for her gender. |
