"Designer Marese Langan does a remarkable job of taking away and putting years on Streep as she moves from Thatcher's late 30s to her 80s....It is Streep's uncanny ability to disappear inside her characters that is striking here."
Los Angeles Times

"[T]he film features a tour-de-force performance by Meryl Streep. Hers is a flawless portrayal of the conservative British prime minister..."
USA Today

"Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher is the main reason to see THE IRON LADY....Close your eyes -- or even keep them open -- and the Iron Lady's time has come again."
Wall Street Journal

"[T]he thoughtful depths and fine-grained details in Meryl Streeps latest feat of superhuman portraiture are ample reward."
Hollywood Reporter

"[T]he story's primarily a setting for Streep's jaw-droppingly brilliant performance....She creates a subtle, stress-riven portrait of a woman reckoning up an extraordinary life as unflinchingly as she lived it."
Total Film

"Streep is her own irresistible show as she assumes, with the precision that is her trademark, the character of the U.K.'s staunchly conservative prime minister in the 1980s." -- Grade: B
Entertainment Weekly

"[With] Meryl Streep, once again going far beyond mimicry into total identification with her role, taking Thatcher from the confident stride of her early triumphs to the stiff-legged shuffle of old age."
Sight and Sound

"Streep's performance, which spans some 40 years in the former prime minister's life, meticulously captures Thatcher's strident public persona."
Film Comment