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Testament Reviews
There's nothing impersonal about this movie. Nothing unbelievable, either, if you believe the human animal has a core of righteousness that can shine like a sun when everything else has been lost.
| Original Score: 8/10 | May 10, 2021
[Testament] is a haunting, emotionally devastating movie.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 10, 2021
It's a simple and resourceful film and one that has been made with unmistakable conviction.
| May 10, 2021
Towering over every other performance is Jane Alexander's Carol Wetherly. It is a side of Alexander that no one has caught before, not even in her finest work.
| May 10, 2021
It can sober and depress, certainly; but often it does uplift.
| May 10, 2021
Focusing on one family in a small northern California town that seems to have survived an initial attack, Littman quickly loses interest in the logic of the concept and begins pushing the sentimental pornography of death.
| May 10, 2021
Although Testament lacks the special-effects power and pre-release hype, it is a far better film than television's The Day After. And while its perspective is totally different, the effect is the same heart-rending, sickening depression.
| May 10, 2021
Testament does manage to convey in its surprisingly quiet and non-theatrical way the very point that its creators surely wanted to make: that human stupidity can destroy the world, but it cannot erase human dignity.
| Original Score: 3/4 | May 10, 2021
Testament is the most serious and powerful American film to deal with nuclear war since On the Beach nearly a quarter-century ago.
| May 10, 2021
The film contains a beautiful, low-key performance from Jane Alexander as the family's strong, frightened mother... conveying the confusion and rage beneath her veneer of calm sadness.
| Original Score: 4/4 | May 10, 2021
While sympathetic to the film's political and humanistic goals, it's hard to recommend it because it sentimentalizes the catastrophe.
| May 10, 2021
Frankly, Testament scared me and I attribute one sleepless night to my having seen it.
| Original Score: 3/4 | May 10, 2021
Littman has a superb sense of how to introduce a scene.
| May 10, 2021
Notable on its own terms, not only in our own, newly tragic context.
| Apr 24, 2020
Testament etches itself into viewers' minds in a uniquely personal way.
| Oct 23, 2018
A dreadfully earnest but fatally uninspired effort to compress the aftermath of an epic catastrophe, massive nuclear war, into a small-scale family memoir.
| May 10, 2017
Testament is an exceptionally powerful film dealing with the survivors of a nuclear war. Debuting director Lynne Littman brings an original approach to the grim material.
| Mar 26, 2009
Testament may be the first movie in a long time that will make you cry. It made me cry. And seeing it again for the second time, knowing everything that would happen, anticipating each scene before it came, I was affected just as deeply.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 23, 2004