…Radioactive is a strong bio-pic which doesn’t go down the conventional route...with Marjane Satrapi offering the kind of fresh takes on life that made Persepolis so engaging, this is the elegant, humanistic re-telling that Marie Curie deserves….

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 22, 2024

Satrapi’s ambition in Radioactive is to move beyond a generic biographical story, yet it so often falls back into the very tropes it was hoping to avoid.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 17, 2023

Radioactive boasts an absolutely outstanding Rosamund Pike as the great Marie Curie, but Marjane Satrapi fails to deliver a well-structured narrative, rushing through the scientist’s groundbreaking discoveries and experiments or ignoring them altogether.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 24, 2023

“Radioactive” did what I want biopics to do, and with a performer like Rosamund Pike doing this level of work, it’s hard not to be impressed.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 24, 2022

The film’s most distinctive choice, a dream sequence that occurs after Pierre’s death, feels like it is from a different film entirely, and perhaps a better one, one that abstracts the Curies’ work even further and delves even deeper.

| Original Score: 6/10 | May 13, 2022

Radioactive ultimately paints in too broad strokes to be anything special and has oversights unpinning each step Satrapi tries to make but is a genuinely interesting, and at times inspiring, biopic.

| Feb 21, 2022

The film's customary treatment of Curie proves almost embarrassing at times, until Satrapi injects something odd that feels delightfully out of place.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 18, 2022

Satrapi, who is a visual and narrative virtuoso, landed herself a story that was to be served to a broader audience, and tried her best to craft it as her own.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2021

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

| Jul 3, 2021

The film ends up disjointed, but its broad historical stance help give a big picture and Rosamund Pike imbues Curie with a strength, conviction and taciturn wit that keep you engaged, despite all the jumping around.

| Jun 24, 2021

Rosamund Pike plays Marie Curie in a meticulous biopic about the awesome power of science.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 23, 2021

One of the film's most outstanding elements is periodically seeing dream sequences that break into everyday life. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 16, 2021

A radiant biopic that celebrates the life of a genius. [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 15, 2021

The novel idea of providing flashforwards to the effects - positive and negative - of Curie's work is novel, and Pike's impassioned, bitter performance is compelling, but the film overall fails to glow.

| Mar 30, 2021

It's hard to ignore that, in the hands of director Marjane Satrapi and writer Jack Thorne, the film isn't engrossing in its second hour as it is in its first.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 28, 2021

The filmmakers stumble centrally over the relationship between science, technology and class society, as many have done before them.

| Feb 10, 2021

Rosamund Pike gives a fine performance as Marie, but the film seemed to me to be overly melodramatic, almost like a soap opera. There were also jarring, and unnecessary digressions in the film to much later events.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 31, 2021

A capable, humanizing, and often lovely look at one of the greatest scientific minds in history.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 27, 2021

Marie Curie's story of bravery, intellect + resilience deserves cinematic treatment and Rosamund Pike portrayed her beautifully. Despite its flaws, I still regard this as a heartfelt tribute to a singular heroine & her legacy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 27, 2020

An exceptional Rosamund Pike. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 30, 2020