The China Syndrome 1979

Vincent Canby, New York Times: The three stars are splendid, but maybe Miss Fonda is just a bit more than that. Her performance is not that of an actress in a star's role, but that of an actress creating a character that happens to be major within the film. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: A tightly assembled didactic thriller. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A terrific thriller that incidentally raises the most unsettling questions about how safe nuclear power plants really are. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: All a bit too earnest, despite the seriousness of the subject, with Fonda setting her jaw and stepping into father's footsteps as Tinseltown's very own protector of humanity; but it's tightly scripted and directed, and genuinely tense in places. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: A moderately compelling thriller about the potential perils of nuclear energy, whose major fault is an overweening sense of its own self-importance. Read more