With nuance, Bosworth and Stewart both play women who seem to have been profoundly shaped by their impressive mother, and we feel the characters’ confusion at having her influence suddenly ripped away from them. (Stewart especially shines, initially playing a prototypical starving-artist type who surprises her family by her response to Alice’s diagnosis.) --
Screendaily
It's a movie that does a great many small things exactly right, including wonderful supporting performances by Kristen Stewart and Alec Baldwin, but the story here is Julianne Moore's performance as a Columbia professor falling down the rabbit hole of a disintegrating mind. --
TheWire
Kristen Stewart's 'Angels In America' monologue in 'Still Alice' may be the best work she's ever done #TIFF14 --
jadabird
Kristen Stewart as their children. As the child who has defied her mother by moving to Los Angeles to try her hand at acting, Stewart has the meatiest part and makes the most of it, particularly in a few tremendously affecting scenes near the end of the film. --
MSN
Kristen Stewart, also magnificent in Olivier Assayas’s Clouds of Sils Maria this year, provides excellent support to Moore’s Alice, and in a film that did not already have a powerhouse like Moore, she would be best in show. (...) But in one really moving scene that is among the best parts of Julianne Moore and Kristen Stewart’s performances, Alice confronts Lydia, telling her that she remembers Lydia was angry with her, and though she cannot remember why, she wants Lydia’s forgiveness. --
icsfilm
Kristen Stewart, too, is a standout, showing a depth and kindness in her character’s relationship with Alice that impressed even me, as someone who’d never quite understood her appeal before. --
Volture
The heart of the film, though, is Alice’s relationship with her daughter Lydia. Lydia comes intensely to life thanks to Kristen Stewart, who, like Moore, is easily a champ of TIFF 2014 thanks to her equally strong performance in Olivier Assayas’s Clouds of Sils Maria. Stewart grows Lydia from a self-involved flighty artist into a compassionate maternal figure, eager and willing to return the love her mother gave her as a child. Stewart arguably gives her most emotional and vulnerable performance to date. Her final monologue, in which she recites to Alice Harper’s final monologue from Tony Kushner’s Angles in America, is one of the most heartrending scenes you’ll see this year. Stills Alice responds with Moore’s finest scene of the film, which totally submerses Alice in her disease but brings to the surface the one true element that cannot be forgotten in a parent-child relationship: love. --
cinemablographer
(Incidentally, the film also features a strong supporting turn for Kristen Stewart, playing Moore's daugther; don't be surprised if she garners some attention too.) --
Variety
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