David Edelstein

“Diane Keaton has never seemed more fragile. She begins the film in her sickbed, and you can sense how the plush apartment, the cold jail, and the bilious air are slowly poisoning her--she's thin-skinned, and neither strong nor stupid enough to repress her revulsion for very long. When she reads to prisoners from the Bible, she trances out, laboring in vain to channel her misery into faith. (This is the sort of effort that a movie like Tender Mercies would celebrate instead of explode.) But her face still flushes at the faintest stirring of emotion, and when she and the Biddles finally flee into the crisp, icy countryside, a giddy voluptuousness fairly bubbles out of her. I'd call her Mrs. Soffel the best performance of the year, except that Keaton has already grabbed that slot, in The Little Drummer Girl. This is the next best.”

“…. [LO some on my copy]: ….But it's made with clarity and intelligence and acted with aching bravura….”

David Edelstein
Village Voice, date? 1985
[also left out some from the beginning on Mrs. Soffel's character]