🇵🇱 Steve G 🇵🇸’s review published on Letterboxd:
I don't like Mike Nichols' films and I'm annoyed.
Because I'd been meaning to watch Silkwood for years but I didn't know he directed it. Or maybe I found this out years ago and that's why I put off watching this for so long, forgot, and ended up being fairly disappointed today.
I'm only fairly disappointed because obviously the performances here elevate this a lot, but the hope that this would be a great companion piece to something like The China Syndrome was a forlorn one, ultimately. Mainly because Nichols being Nichols, he allows this to end up swimming in gloopy, pointless relationship drama rather than focusing on the actual important stuff going on around Karen Silkwood. Not whether Cher fancied her or not.
The fact that this was a film put out by ABC was quite a notable one to me because the way Nichols shuffles this one out means it ends up playing like a TV movie at times. He spends so much time focusing on Silkwood's relationships that there's a major dilution of the appalling goings-on at her plant.
It's just typical Nichols. Still, great acting and stuff, whatever.