Rosamund Pike fiercely embraces the material and her character's complexities.

...the strangely gloomy approach, and Pike's withdrawn performance, are rather alienating. Garson's Mme Curie might have been less accurate, but she was a more engaging character.

Despite the talent involved, and the incredible subject matter, the irritating tendency to overexplain means there's very little spark to be found in the enervating "Radioactive."

…Radioactive is a strong bio-pic which doesn’t go down the conventional route...with Marjane Satrapi offering the kind of fresh takes on life that made Persepolis so engaging, this is the elegant, humanistic re-telling that Marie Curie deserves….