Tracy and Hepburn were a great team, and this, their first outing together, set the seal on the pattern to follow into the next decade.
– ,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2006
rotten:
The premise is promising...But Stevens lacks the courage to make much of the conflict; the film ends with an embarrassing sequence in which Hepburn is tamed and installed in the kitchen.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
For the first time in months, this critical spectator feels like tossing his old hat into the air and weaving a joyous snake dance over the typewriter keys in celebration of Metro's triumphant Woman of the Year...
– Bosley Crowther,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
Woman of the Year is an entertaining film with superb work by Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
fresh:
The film earlier has one of the very best Tracy-Hepburn love scenes, full of the sense of private shelter that they uniquely purvey.