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  Review by Jack ★★ 6

  Rosamund, i think it’s time to get a new agent

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  Review by alec 🇵🇸 ★★

  I’m arresting hollywood on the crime of wasting rosamund pike’s talent

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  Review by David Cuevas ★★ 9

  The greatest threat to modern cinema isn’t streaming services, comic book flicks, or even trend-setting cinematic universes…

  It’s the rise of the Oscar-bait biopic.

  Taking the life of an influential figure, and minimizing their entire career into a cramped two hour-sub run time seems ludicrous. The existence of this genre to begin with, is simply meant to pander towards nostalgia driven elders, who crave for cinematic fantasies to re-live their idols of yesteryear. In 2019 alone, we have films based on Harriet Tubman, Judy Garland, Fred Rogers, and Bryan Stevenson; being all released around the same time, just months away from each other. The only time when a biopic can really change the perspective of a famous being, living or…

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  Review by ash ★★

  I waited 84 minutes for Anya Taylor-Joy to show up and I am NOT happy.

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  Review by steffi955 ★★★

  Does a movie need to be good? Is it not enough to see Rosamund Pike?

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  Review by CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️ ★★½

  Marie Curie, the original raver girl. She was into glowsticks before it was cool.

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  Review by Jordan Beaumont Anderson ★½ 3

  Synopsis: Lady loves pretty rock so much it kills her.

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  Review by Carrie Jarosinski ★★★ 1

  You’ll be surprised to know that, like Marie Curie, I too have discovered an element*.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  * The element of surprise!

  See, you literally didn’t see that coming, right?!

  Of course you didn’t.

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  Review by Austin Burke ★★ 2

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  Radioactive is bold and beautiful from a visual perspective. There are plenty of over-stylized elements that come off as “too much,” but at least the film is colorful. This, and Pike’s emotional range, are my only praises towards this snooze-fest. It’s extremely unfortunate because of how fascinating this true(ish) story is. One of the tag-lines uses for the film reads “Pioneer - Rebel - Genius.” Radioactive is described as an incredible, true-story of Marie Curie, and her Nobel Prize-winning work that changed the world. This all sounds great. So why does this film feel empty? Even with some traumatic “reaction scenes” from Marie that could get anyone emotional, there is little to no connection to…

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  Review by 𝚮𝖆𝖗𝖑𝖊𝖖𝖚𝖎𝖓𝖆𝖉𝖊 🎃🕯️👻 ★★ 4

  So work will kill you and love will result in childbirth, huh? Jesus Christ, how to live?

  Nicely shot and scored, but filled with baffling inacurracies and implications. The director never gives Pike the scenes that match the intensity of all the explosions they included, what's worse we never feel like we got to know the protagonist, in spite of her relatable problems, which include the eternal misogyny. Maria Skłodowska-Curie, Rosamund Pike and Anya Taylor-Joy deserve better.

  Also I shit you not at one point Jen from The IT Crowd shows up just to call her a whore and throw some Polonophobia around. Why would you give a legend so little to do?

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  Review by Zeeshan Ali ★★★½ 2

  This film is full of emotions, full of knowledge, full of history, full of science and full of pain. Madam Marie curie who changed chemistry and physics forever.

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  Review by MJsays ★★ 2

  Dramatically flat and painfully unengaging.

  Considering the fascinating subject matter and the array of talent involved, this biopic struggles to cause even the slightest chemical reaction in the brain let alone those moments on-screen that require that same kind of friction, and it doesn’t help that Satrapi uses a stock-standard formula that’s been tested many times before.