The Boston Phoenix
Review from issue: April 23 - 30, 1998

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3 stars

Now, Voyager

(1941; screens Tuesday at 3 p.m.)

This shrine to the Hays Code stars Bette Davis as a spinster who, released from her mother's domination by a benevolent shrink (Claude Rains), blooms under the romantic attention of a married man (Paul Henreid) she meets on a cruise. At the end she returns him to his miserable marriage; it's one of the most masochistic movies of all time, but you can't help being caught up in the romantic sentiment and the conviction Davis brings to the role.
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