Molly Haskell

“… [T]he doctor characters--Geneviève Bujold…; Michael Douglas…; Richard Widmark…; and Rip Torn … are strictly no-frills functional….

“Geneviève Bujold, who must single-handedly probe the nefarious goings-on, is perfect as the persistently nosy doctor. The fact that she is a woman in a man's world heightens the element of danger: Her suspicions can be dismissed by the Hippocratic fraternity as the ramblings of a hysterical woman, while from her point of view it is hardly pure paranoia to suspect your anxious lover would like to exchange you for a more submissive model. In the sexual dynamics of the new two-career relationship, there is more room for doubt and suspicion than in the one-career marriage of Rosemary's Baby.

“Although Crichton is sufficiently aware of these possibilities to have raised them, he doesn't develop them to the fullest, doesn't get the emotional and psychological juice out of the sexual paranoia and political intrigue of the hospital world….”

Molly Haskell
New York, date ?