It makes salient points about the power of debate and women's voices; Polley's intelligence and sensitivity are vital traits even as the visual components of the movie remain frustratingly inferior.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2024

Even though it’s a Spartan approach to filmmaking, Women Talking never fails to slap you awake.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 20, 2023

Women Talking is a tough-minded yet sensitive film that could pose a bit of a challenge for some audiences.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 17, 2023

If you can go along with these broad brushstrokes and consequent holes in the plot, you’ll find high drama in Foy and Buckley’s ferociously fine performances, together with moments of wistful poetry...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 16, 2023

It breaks free of the bleak narratives that have boxed in cinema’s rape victims over and over again. At the very least, it’s something we haven’t seen before.

| Feb 13, 2023

A tale that is at once timely and timeless.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 12, 2023

It’s heavy material, and it might have sunk the movie had Polley not buoyed it with such a knockout cast.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 10, 2023

Quietly, confidently and without fanfare, Polley has made the first piece of great post-MeToo cinema. What it depicts, and a homogenising hashtag doesn’t, is that there is no singular response to abuse.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 10, 2023

Polley allows bursts of weirdness and humour to punctuate deliberation that, though often abstract, never becomes alienatingly cerebral.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 10, 2023

It is compelling, gripping, powerful, as tense as a thriller. Think of it this way: it’s like Twelve Angry Men, but in this instance it’s Eight Angry Women (in a hayloft).

| Feb 10, 2023

Polley never condescends to us by spelling it out, but the film lands both as timeless and acutely relevant in 2023.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 9, 2023

Experiment enters the mainstream to create a new feminist cinema.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 9, 2023

The film’s rather abstract conversation doesn’t convey much in the way of urgency or specificity. But there is a sustained moral seriousness in Polley’s work, a willingness to confront pain.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 9, 2023

A remarkable ensemble of performers unite for this combustible, timely chamber-piece that hails the return of Polley as an ambitious and empirical filmmaker.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 6, 2023

This has the makings of a waiting-game Western such as High Noon or Rio Bravo, as well as hints of Unforgiven... Whatever course of action is taken in Polley’s film, it will be the women who do it.

| Feb 3, 2023

The subject matter is powerful, but despite a number of fine performances, Women Talking is never quite able to find its voice.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 20, 2023

Plays like a fable... But it's sharp, and it's biting.

| Jan 18, 2023

It's a film with so much depth and, of course, one of the greater casts you'll see this year.

| Jan 18, 2023

There is a lot of injustice in the world, "Women Talking" admits, but there are small, hopeful things we can do to make it a better place.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 12, 2023

“Women Talking” is full of phenomenal acting by a group of actors at the top of their game.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 12, 2023