Rosamund Pike fiercely embraces the material and her character's complexities.

Full Review | Jul 3, 2021

...the strangely gloomy approach, and Pike's withdrawn performance, are rather alienating. Garson's Mme Curie might have been less accurate, but she was a more engaging character.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 10, 2020

Despite the talent involved, and the incredible subject matter, the irritating tendency to overexplain means there's very little spark to be found in the enervating "Radioactive."

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 29, 2020

Though well-filmed and well-acted, Radioactive careens from predictable to the borderline bizarre, and never finds solid footing in either world.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 27, 2020

[An] intriguing but frustrating drama...

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jul 25, 2020

"Radioactive" is somehow a stifling bore. Keep your distance.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jul 24, 2020

Like their [protagonist], give the filmmakers credit for some creative risks. Even so, it's a shame that [Radioactive never] lives up to the greatness of its subject.

Full Review | Jul 24, 2020

There's plenty of story, dreamy visuals, big ideas, and rich materials for drama here. Yet Satrapi struggles with tying them together in a way that hits the heart.

Full Review | Jul 24, 2020

Despite its clear and admirable efforts to upset the usual visual and dramatic monotony of genius biopics, Radioactive feels surprisingly by-the-numbers.

Full Review | Jul 24, 2020

Rosamund Pike is never less than mesmerizing.

Full Review | Original Score: B + | Jul 24, 2020

No one can say Radioactive takes a narrow, or sanitized, view of its subject, but the fallout from this expansiveness is incoherence.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2020

It's impossible to deny the fury but also the heart that Pike finds in an obsessive woman who never lets down her guard because of the childhood trauma she hides behind it.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2020

Satrapi finds fresh ways to honor the complexity and breadth of Redniss' work.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 23, 2020

"Radioactive" is more provocative and satisfying than the average waxworks, but Satrapi's visual strategies also point to the even more fully adventurous movie that could have been.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2020

Satrapi eschews traditional biopic notions in favor of a more daring approach. But the execution is frustratingly inconsistent, with a time-hopping structure that's more jarring than thrilling.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 23, 2020

Despite Satrapi's best efforts to smooth out the story and imbue it with depth and theatrical interest, the story can't overcome some of its most unwieldy structural flaws.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 23, 2020

Never mind the plot curveballs-Rosamund Pike's refreshingly untamed performance as two-time Nobel-winning scientist Marie Curie does full justice to a defiantly unconventional life.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 23, 2020

The problem with films like Radioactive is that they neither fulfill the biography's basic duty of elucidating the life and times of the subject nor offer a compelling artistic vision or drama as a substitute for the hard facts.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jul 23, 2020

Pike diligently and sensitively portrays the inner turmoil that churns inside Curie and erupts as a steely determination.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2020

Overall, "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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 23, 2020