The Christian Sciene MonitorIt’s possible to make a movie about a controversial political figure and have all the warring political factions, for differ...
Chicago Sun-TimesYou have to be very talented to work with Meryl Streep. It also helps to know how to use her.
The New YorkerAn oddly unsettling compound of glorification and malice that whirls around and winds up nowhere.
Richard RoeperThe Iron Lady is a conventional biopic with one great performance and a few memorable scenes.
Salon ArtsThatcher contains multitudes; she is rife with contradictions you can barely glimpse in this modestly affecting movie.
Rolling StoneIs there anything that Meryl Streep can't do as an actress? One can only marvel at her virtuoso performance as Britain's Mar...
The New York TimesYou are left with the impression of an old woman who can't quite remember who she used to be and of a movie that is not so s...
New York MagazineThe Iron Lady is shallow but satisfying, largely because of Meryl Streep and her big fake English teeth and gift for using m...
New York Daily NewsThose hoping for insight into the life and times of Margaret Thatcher herself will leave deeply disappointed.
Los Angeles TimesAn affecting if not always satisfying portrait of the strong-willed leader humbled by age.
USA TodayThough not illuminating as a historical biopic, the film features a tour-de-force performance by Meryl Streep.
New York PostThe film stars an unsurpassable Meryl Streep, whose ability to empathize with her characters has never been more gloriously ...
Wall Street JournalTakes a blandly nonpartisan approach to one of the most controversial, as well as influential, politicians in British histor...
Chicago Sun-TimesYou have to be very talented to work with Meryl Streep. It also helps to know how to use her. The Iron Lady fails in both of...
Chicago TribuneYes, it's a strangely de-politicized portrait of Britain's first female prime minister. But what's there is actually enough.
The Philadelphia InquirerThe portrait that Streep delivers in Phyllida Lloyd's impressionistic biopic is astonishing.
The Boston GlobeEverything Streep does here is a seismic act of theater. If she so much as tilts her head, the earth tilts with it. She does...
San Francisco ChronicleStreep's performance is so true and so uncannily accurate, so full and so complete in its understanding, that she is fascina...
Washington PostStreep's performance overpowers the movie it's in - a perfectly executed triple axel that renders everything else just featu...
JobloOverall, THE IRON LADY is a good, if unexceptional biopic, worthwhile mostly due to Streep, who’s certainly worthy of at lea...
Total FilmNot Iron Mans mother, but an adroit if flashy tribute to Mrs Thatchers ascent to power. Sly satire and a sublime Streep shou...
Black Sheep ReviewsStreep is so strong that at times it seems as though she is carrying the entire film in a cart behind her back with a thick ...
ReelViewsIf one was to judge the career of Margaret Thatcher, the U.K.'s Prime Minister from 1979 through 1990, based solely on this ...
Entertainment WeeklyStreep is at her peak as Maggie-the-PM — and then circles back to the frail old lady at home, the effect adds up less to an ...
Film FractureLacking in any great detail, The Iron Lady cheats audiences and Margaret Thatcher out of a great biopic.
Hollywood ReporterAudiences looking for probing political drama might feel shortchanged, but the thoughtful depths and fine-grained details in...
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Partial Film Information
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Writer: Abi Morgan
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Cast: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Alexandra Roach
Release: December 16, 2011
Writer: Abi Morgan
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Cast: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Alexandra Roach
Release: December 16, 2011
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