Editing Now, Voyager (section)

==Critical reception==
[[Theodore Strauss]], a critic for ''The New York Times'', observed:
{{blockquote|Casey Robinson has created a deliberate and workmanlike script, which more than once reaches into troubled emotions. Director Irving Rapper has screened it with frequent effectiveness. But either because of the Hays office or its own spurious logic, [the film] endlessly complicates an essentially simple theme. For all its emotional hair-splitting, it fails to resolve its problems as truthfully as it pretends. In fact, a little more truth would have made the film a good deal shorter ... Although ''Now, Voyager'' starts out bravely, it ends exactly where it started – and after two lachrymose hours.<ref>Strauss, Theodore (as T.S). "[https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9D02EFD71339E33BBC4B51DFB6678389659EDE ''Now Voyager'' (1942): ''Now Voyager'', with Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, at the Hollywood]". ''The New York Times''. November 23, 1942.</ref>}}

David Lardner of ''The New Yorker'' offered a similar opinion, writing that for most of the film, Davis "just plods along with the plot, which is longish and a little out of proportion to its intellectual content."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Lardner |first=David |date=October 24, 1942 |title=The Current Cinema |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |page=68 }}</ref> ''Variety'', however, wrote a more positive review, calling it <blockquote>the kind of drama that maintains Warner's pattern for box-office success ... Hal Wallis hasn't spared the purse-strings on this production. It has all the earmarks of money spent wisely. Irving Rapper's direction has made the picture move along briskly, and the cast, down to the most remote performer, has contributed grade A portrayals.<ref>{{cite journal |date=December 31, 1941|title=Film Reviews: Now, Voyager |url=https://variety.com/1941/film/reviews/now-voyager-1200413847/ |journal=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |page= 8 }}</ref></blockquote> ''[[Harrison's Reports]]'' called the film "intelligently directed" and praised Davis' performance as "outstanding", but warned that the film's "slow-paced action and its none-too-cheerful atmosphere make it hardly suitable entertainment for the masses."<ref>{{cite journal |date=August 22, 1942 |title='Now, Voyager' with Bette Davis |journal=[[Harrison's Reports]] |page= 134 }}</ref>

[[Leslie Halliwell]] wrote in ''Halliwell's Film Guide'': "A basically soggy script gets by, and how, through the romantic magic of its stars, who were all at their best; and suffering in mink went over very big in wartime."<ref>Halliwell's Film Guide, 1992, p. 818</ref>