Now, Voyager

"Not great filmmaking, but indispensable to students of 40s pop culture."

"Few Hollywood pictures of the time played so fast and loose with filmic and moral tradition."

"Davis, impeccable as usual, turns the sow's ear of Hollywood's notion of a repressed spinster (remove the glasses and lo! a beauty) into something like a silk purse."

"It's Grade-A schlock, but not without depth..."

"Unfairly criticised on its release for being lachrymose and soppy, this Bette Davis makeover movie has only become more affecting over time."

"For all its emotional hair-splitting, it fails to resolve its problems as truthfully as it pretends."

"Now, Voyager... affords Bette Davis one of her superlative acting roles, that of a neurotic spinster fighting to free herself from the shackles of a tyrannical mother."

"Now, Voyager remains a highly narcotic, swoon-inducing romance in the Bette Davis canon."

"Exquisitely crafted and passionately acted."