Passion
Entertainment One | Release Date: August 30, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
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8
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11
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3
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlAug 27, 2013
Passion is pretty good. Read full review
100
RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiAug 2, 2013
Brian De Palma is one of the great seducers of the cinema, and he proves it with Passion, a spellbinding thriller. Read full review
80
Time OutKeith UhlichAug 27, 2013
This is truly De Palma–ville, and the filmmaker’s remake of Alain Corneau’s tale of corporate bloodletting, "Love Crime" (2010), is a welcome return to the carnal shockers that he does so well. Read full review
75
NPRTomas HachardSep 3, 2013
De Palma is such a dazzling stylist that for most of Passion, you'll find it perfectly acceptable to let the visuals wash over you, paying only passing attention to the plot. Read full review
75
IndieWireEric KohnApr 23, 2013
Passion simultaneously parodies its plot while elevating it to a strangely involving exercise in cinematic drama. The filmmaker has either lost control of the material or maintains the same calculation of his protagonists. But the entertainment value associated with that uncertainty is the essence of his career. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineEd GonzalezApr 23, 2013
Passion is a serpentine, gorgeously orchestrated gathering of all of De Palma's pet themes and conceits, a symphony of giddy terror where people perpetually hide behind masks, both literal and figurative. Read full review
70
The New York TimesA.O. ScottAug 29, 2013
Passion is often sleek and enjoyable, dispensing titillation, suspense and a few laughs without taking itself too seriously. Read full review
70
The DissolveNoel MurrayAug 4, 2013
The movie is one long game of misdirection, playing tricks on viewers from scene to scene, and showing how easy it is to steer a crowd into missing something important. That’s the real De Palma touch, even more than the operatic overtones and excess. Read full review
58
The PlaylistJaime DunnApr 23, 2013
De Palma’s heart ultimately doesn’t feel fully in this film. What Passion is lacking is, ironically, some passion. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezSep 5, 2013
What Passion ultimately lacks most, ironically, is passion, the artistic fervor that distinguished all his best pictures. This one feels like a throwaway by a gifted filmmaker who has run out of ideas. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleSep 4, 2013
Passion will only rekindle your love affair with De Palma to the extent that his luridly artisan chiller classics are readily available afterward for another viewing. Read full review
50
New York PostLou LumenickAug 29, 2013
A campy erotic thriller that’s seriously short of, well, passion. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzAug 29, 2013
One of the joys of a good Brian De Palma film is his willingness to go over the top. In a film that isn’t so good, that excess becomes a lot less enjoyable. And Passion isn’t so good. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloAug 28, 2013
Passion, De Palma’s latest film, will irritate the faithful for about an hour, then thrill them as the master abruptly springs to life and starts carving up screen space with his usual reckless precision. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanAug 28, 2013
Passion turns into vintage De Palma — which is to say, the film seems almost engineered to get you giggling at the extravagance of its absurdity. Any enthusiasm in the viewer is bound to be a shadow of the film's passion for itself. Read full review
50
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreAug 26, 2013
DePalma flirts with the lurid and tosses in some interesting third act surprises, but never finds his way back to the sexually charged tone and shocks of his earlier thrillers. Read full review
50
VarietyJustin ChangApr 23, 2013
Clearly, Passion means to be a hoot, a wet-dream thriller for cinephiles. But by the time it reaches its overwrought final act, the picture has generated neither the tension of its forebears nor the audacity that would allow it to transcend its silliness. Read full review
50
Film.comJordan HoffmanApr 23, 2013
As a movie, quite frankly, it stinks. As an “entertainment object,” it will no doubt find its boosters. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungApr 23, 2013
The impression is that De Palma is indulging himself with homages to his own Hitchcockian greatest hits, with results that veer close to self-parody on occasion and emphasize just how far this once-outstanding director's creative star has plummeted. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Staff (Not credited)Aug 23, 2013
Where Corneau flirted with erotic tension, De Palma flaunts it. Where Corneau went for nightmarish reality, De Palma does noirish dreams. Read full review
37
Rolling StonePeter TraversAug 30, 2013
Is a Brian DePalma movie that laughs at Brian De Palma movies still worth your time? Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierAug 29, 2013
With no heat at all and a woefully disjointed cast, De Palma’s danse macabre never catches fire. Read full review
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