Newman's direction is as understated as Woodward's performance is magnified.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 31, 2021

Plays like a fantastically unearthed time capsule from a particularly potent period of American filmmaking. Underneath its obscured corrosion, it shines like the radioactive particle it is.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 25, 2020

Paul Newman's second film as director, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, based on Paul Zindel's 1971 Pulitzer Prize play, not only confirms his abilities but, with a screenplay by Alvin Sargent, transcends the original.

Full Review | Jun 11, 2020

The final moments are of a very contained emotion, one of Paul Newman's virtues as a director. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Apr 14, 2020

It sounds like a masochist's orgy, but through the combined ingenuities of Paul Newman, who directed it, Joanne Woodward, who plays Beatrice, and Alvin Sargent, who adapted the play to the screen, it is nothing of the sort.

Full Review | Mar 18, 2020

Newman wisely gets out of Woodward's way, who delivers a tour-de-force performance that remains one of the most fully realized and painfully destructive mothers in cinematic history.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 3, 2019

The talents of everyone connected with it are unmistakable, including those of Mr. Newman... It's just that the basic material calls for a kind of second-rate bravura performance from everyone, from the production designer to the actors.

Full Review | Jan 14, 2014

Sentimental without really being tender, naturalistic without being real.

Full Review | Jan 14, 2014

Newman and Woodward's daughter Potts steals the movie, but what makes it so watchable is Newman's reluctance to sentimentalise.

Full Review | Jan 14, 2014

Joanne Woodward is superb.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 14, 2014

Producer-director Paul Newman has made his finest behind-the-camera film to date in the screen version of Paul Zindel's play.

Full Review | Jan 14, 2014

Joanne Woodward's performance is not like anything she's ever done before.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 14, 2014

Joanne Woodward's high-decibel output comes across like a distaff version of Jon Lovitz' Master Thespian.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 3, 2011