Temple Grandin is an amazingly assembled, superbly acted, strikingly sweet film about Grandin's life -- and the cows' death.

| Jul 30, 2020

HBO's fine biopic serves as an important reminder that people with autism spectrum disorders are individuals rather than collections of tics.

| Jul 30, 2020

What's striking about Temple Grandin is the absence of sentimentality; no syrupy music, no saccharine climax - just a rich glimpse inside a rare mind.

| Jul 30, 2020

It is, of course, the kind of role that is notoriously awardable... But there is real nuance here too, in the way that Danes shows you Grandin's increasing ability to manage her own panic and uncertainty

| Jul 29, 2020

It helps that Danes is phenomenal, going so deep inside the character as to be unrecognizable to fans of her Romeo + Juliet, Me and Orson Welles and My So-Called Life performances.

| Jul 29, 2020

This thoughtful treatment also helps a severely deglammed Danes transcend a standard awards-bait performance. She in turn gets a nice boost from a strong but understated supporting cast.

| Original Score: A | Jul 29, 2020

Don't miss it -- especially for Danes' career-defining performance. You'll be looking at the next Meryl Streep.

| Jul 29, 2020

Every child diagnosed as autistic isn't Temple Grandin. But in Danes' pitchperfect and unblinking presentation of her story lies the blueprint for how the world should see potential, rather than limitations.

| Jul 29, 2020

Even when the predictably rousing moments come, you may not feel manipulated so much as fascinated. The movie keeps its cool, so that Claire Danes can keep her dignity.

| Jul 29, 2020

Most impressively, Danes gets past the tics of her character -- an autistic woman who "thinks in pictures" -- to create the sort of memorable portrait that frequently yields gilded ornaments as a lovely parting gift.

| Jul 25, 2020

So completely does [Claire Danes] capture her subject's hard-learned speech, the genderless stride, the flashes of terror and brilliance and, occasionally, radiant joy, that it's impossible to find a trace of the actor beneath

| Jul 25, 2020

The conventional biopic beats all get hit here. But Danes' performance is far from conventional.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 25, 2020

Danes, who's been very good on both the small screen and the big screen, is masterful as Grandin. Though she employs the panicky mannerisms and verbal tics of her subject, she never makes those qualities the central part of her performance.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 25, 2020

At every turn, Danes and the filmmakers defy convention and expectation, creating not only a true homage to a unique woman, but a cinematic reminder of the way these things should be done.

| Jul 25, 2020

Danes gives an Emmy-worthy portrayal, at once credible and incredible.

| Jul 25, 2020

This narrative is loyal to Ms. Grandin's credo: emotions are secondary to tangible results. And the result is a movie that is funny, instructive, and also intangibly charming.

| Jul 25, 2020

Exactly the kind of idiosyncratic project that gave HBO its reputation in the first place.

Full Review | Feb 8, 2010

The best biopic in a very, very long time.

Full Review | Feb 8, 2010