Passion Play
Image Entertainment | Release Date: May 6, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
22
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
3
Negative:
6
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65
MovielineS.T. VanAirsdaleMay 5, 2011
Fox and Rourke embody Lily and Nate's lost souls with vulnerability that's at once strikingly sincere and strange, particularly for two actors renowned for their impunity both on and off screen. Read full review
63
New York PostKyle SmithMay 6, 2011
Even when scary, Murray is somehow funny, too, and he steals the show as always. Read full review
50
IndieWireEric KohnMay 3, 2011
The reality is that Passion Play has a few good ideas that simply don't hold together. More of a miscalculation than an outright dud, it takes the form of a wildly surreal western fantasy, something that Chilean madman Alejandro Jodorowsky ("El Topo") could have executed with more rigorous invention. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanMay 11, 2011
This underworld fairy tale is so soggy and sentimental it's like a new genre: Hallmark noir. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterRay BennettMay 2, 2011
If the degree of laughter at the wrong moments and the number of walkouts at the Toronto International Film Festival are any indication, the film will appeal only to the most fondly indulgent. Read full review
30
VarietyJohn AndersonMay 2, 2011
Perversely eccentric and frequently inert, screenwriter Mitch Glazer's directorial debut, Passion Play, will benefit from some of the well-known names attached, but the near-painful hipness of the production will yield poisonous word of mouth. Read full review
20
Time OutJoshua RothkopfMay 3, 2011
You can take the phoenix-rising actor out of straight-to-video trash, but-well, you know the rest of it. Read full review
16
The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsMay 5, 2011
Passion Play doesn't overreach so much as it overindulges in aimless pacing, inert acting, and a romance maudlin enough to make "Twilight" look restrained. Read full review
10
The New York TimesStephen HoldenMay 5, 2011
You might reasonably assume that any movie starring Mr. Rourke and Mr. Murray would have to have something to recommend it. But aside from a haunting musical interlude, in which Mr. Rourke, with pathetic ineptitude, mimes playing a trumpet, Passion Play is barely palatable. Read full review
10
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternMay 5, 2011
Every now and then a movie's awfulness rises to the level of mystery. Read full review
10
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleMay 5, 2011
Inexplicably filmed in a handful of styles - including, bizarrely, obviously processed shots - by cinematographer Christopher Doyle, Passion Play would be midnight-movie fodder if it weren't so drearily wrapped up in its wounded-male aesthetic and a clumsy approach to art-movie moodiness that was abandoned in the '80s. Read full review
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