 Crawford has one of her best roles...” 

In 2018, The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw gave five out of five stars to “this extraordinary, almost Daliesque comedy...the absence of men has its own kind of ethical implication.It is a sort of abandonment, and the drama’s no-men structure is a satirical comment on their emotional distance Around this drama of duplicity and infidelity, Cukor creates a brilliant spectacle, halted by Shearer’s moments of stunningly serious emotional devastation.On Rotten Tomatoes, "The Women" holds a 92% "Fresh" rating.