Radium Girls

This is a powerful story, sensitively told, Pilcher and Mohler have a gift for conveying the sense of time and place and showing us the perspective of these young women, beautifully performed by Joey King and Abby Quinn.

While this was very well-meaning and intrinsically interesting, I found the performances a bit pallid.

It's pretty easy to watch this film and roll my eyes at it, but I would give this film to the young girls in my life.

Some things, it seems, never change, and even though "Radium Girls" struggles to deliver that message with as fine a point as it should, it's worth remembering.

The film aims for inspirational true story, but is sadly uninspired, and its relationship to real history is obscured by the schematic way it is fictionalized.

The anger inspired by what happened to these women is invigorating, but that fury is rarely felt from what Radium Girls offers as a cinematic experience.

The script, penned by Mohler and Brittany Shaw, doesnt reach the excitement of a court drama and honestly lacks tension throughout, but the film is salvaged by the performances of its leads and supporting cast.

I do really like the sense of how 'modern' the world depicted here feels, even if it was a century ago. It cements the feeling that the story remains incredibly relevant today.

It's an important and inspiring story well told.

In a country where individuals still struggle against the Goliaths of Industry, this movie is a reminder of what can happen when women refuse to be silenced.