David Ansen

“…. But [Jackson] is not the whole show : Mona Washbourne is just as astonishing in her ‘stuff and nonense,’ teas-cosy way as Stevie’s ‘lion aunt,’ and her gradual descent into senility is masterfully evoked…. [I]t’s not for cinematic flash that one goes to ‘Stevie’—it’s for the special company that one agets to keep.”

David Ansen
Newsweek, August 3, 1981
(from my note card)