Little attention is paid to the vernacular or physicality of the period. The depths of emotions aren’t plumbed...

| Mar 7, 2025

The script, penned by Mohler and Brittany Shaw, doesnt reach the excitement of a court drama and honestly lacks tension throughout, but the film is salvaged by the performances of its leads and supporting cast.

| Feb 21, 2022

I do really like the sense of how 'modern' the world depicted here feels, even if it was a century ago. It cements the feeling that the story remains incredibly relevant today.

| Nov 22, 2021

Radium Girls is consistently compelling, and often quite inventive.

| Nov 22, 2021

The sisters' quest for justice makes for a stirring, relatable story...

| Nov 22, 2021

An underdog battling a callous corporation that knowingly poisoned citizens, Radium Girls is a movie in the spirit of Erin Brockovich and A Civil Action. It takes place during the Jazz Age, but holds haunting relevance for today.

| May 14, 2021

Radium Girls is rare in that very few American movies have been made about the early 20th century struggles of female (or male) workers.

| Feb 6, 2021

Didn't cure my ennui.

| Jan 22, 2021

The production is so threadbare that it feels like the actors are playing actors and this is the movie-in-a-movie they're making.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 4, 2020

Features solid performances by the cast as first-time feature directors Pilcher and Mohler blend fact with fictional characters to bring the enlightening story to the screen.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 10, 2020

The war for safer workplace conditions doesn't end with the Radium Girls but it's an important battle to remember, especially as one where women led the charge and suffered the most.

| Nov 5, 2020

These stories must be told even today because a Geiger counter, waved over the grave of a radium girl, clicks for 1,000 years.

| Nov 5, 2020

While this was very well-meaning and intrinsically interesting, I found the performances a bit pallid.

| Oct 30, 2020

It's pretty easy to watch this film and roll my eyes at it, but I would give this film to the young girls in my life.

| Oct 30, 2020

Inspiring real-life labor drama has intense moments.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 28, 2020

True story of women who fought back when they learned they had been exposed to toxins on the job.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 26, 2020

While the historical premise itself carries the story somewhat, it gets bogged down by lackluster characters. But I think this was a story that needed to be told, if anything to encourage viewers to research the real Radium Girls' tale for themselves.

| Oct 26, 2020

Sympathetic, if awkward and unevenly paced, docudrama chronicling a shameful chapter in U.S. labor history.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 26, 2020

Radium Girls doesn't break the mold but it does exactly what it sets out to do.

| Oct 26, 2020

Marred somewhat by a Merchant-Ivory aesthetic, it is still an earnest historical drama about how innocent young woman were pressured into exposing themselves to radium poisoning.

| Oct 25, 2020