Stanley Kauffmann

“…. When [Stevie] talks about Angicanism, there's more two-fold structure: she likes the hymns but doesn't like the faith. And Glenda Jackson, who plays Stevie, always gives the word "Christian" three syllables--Christ-i-an. This makes the source of the term stand clear.

“Abut Jackson's acting, I have little to add to what I've said many times: she is one of the best actresses alive. When she enters a room, the room then exists. Her intelligence, her concealment and revelation of feeling, her musicality … but I wasn't going to talk about her. I'll just note that I was glad to see her with her 1978 "normal" hair instead of the shingle cut she subsequently adopted for Shakespeare's Cleopatra in London and her Broadway appearance in Rose.

“Jackson did Stevie on the London stage, and with her as the lion aunt was Mona Washbourne, who is with her again in the film. In all the shouting, so well deserved, about Jackson, please, please let us not overlook Washbourne….’

Stanley Kauffmann
The New Republic, July 25, 1981