Wanda

"It's a powerful character study of an uneducated Pennsylvania coal-country woman who allows her husband a divorce and custody of her two children because, she admits, "I'm just no good.""

"The film is all the more impressive for its refusal to get embroiled in half-baked political attitudinising."

"[Loden] captures the ambiance of small-time roadhouses with compelling accuracy; she manages through some clever location photography to convey an almost overwhelming sense of lingering desperation."

"Wanda is a small movie, fully aware of its limits, and within those limits lovely."

""Realism" doesn't entirely do justice to the world Wanda inhabits, which, for all the grit and grunge of its bars and diners and factory floors, is also a world of startling everyday beauty."