A Quiet Passion
Music Box Films | Release Date: April 14, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
78
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Generally favorable reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
Positive:
23
Mixed:
8
Negative:
0
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60
TheWrapDan CallahanApr 12, 2017
The degree of difficulty here is steep, and Davies has not been entirely successful in making Dickinson’s milieu come to full and convincing life. Read full review
60
EmpireJohn NugentApr 10, 2017
Thoughtful, emotional and often surprisingly funny, Terence Davies offers a rich if inconsistent portrait of a unique poet long deserving of a big-screen study. Read full review
60
CineVueLucy PopescuApr 10, 2017
While Davies vividly captures the period's austerity and Dickinson's despair at being misunderstood, there are a few too many scenes of repressed emotion followed by wild outbursts of grief. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungFeb 24, 2016
Despite a warmly interacting cast that includes Jennifer Ehle as Emily’s sister and Keith Carradine as her lion-maned, lionized father, and a valiant effort on the part of Nixon and Davies to externalize the poet’s inner demons in emotional, high-tension scenes, the film can’t escape an underlying static quality that extinguishes the flame before it can get burning. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoMay 4, 2017
The film refuses to soft-pedal Dickinson’s heartbreaking descent into bitterness and near-misanthropy, but sometimes operates with a heavy-handedness that’s certainly at odds with her poetry. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerApr 28, 2017
The Emily of this movie seems to survive primarily to take everyone in her orbit to task. Davies is holding her up as the indomitable spirit of genius – a woman who suffers fools not at all. Read full review
42
The PlaylistJessica KiangFeb 24, 2016
It's an overwrought, stagey muddle that suggests that Davies, ever a-quiver on the extreme high end of the sensitivity meter anyway, has quivered right off it and plunged into the depths of bathos. Read full review
40
VarietyGuy LodgeFeb 24, 2016
[Davies'] most mannered and least fulfilling work to date, A Quiet Passion boasts meticulous craft and ornate verbiage in abundance, but confines Cynthia Nixon’s melancholia-stricken performance as arguably America’s greatest poet in an emotional straitjacket of variously arch storytelling tones. Read full review
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