A Quiet Passion Reviews
Brian T. Carney Washington Blade
While A Quiet Passion will, unfortunately, probably not become required viewing in high school English classes, it is definitely required viewing for all fans of great literature and great cinema. It is a meeting of great minds and great hearts.
Full Review | Dec 14, 2022
CJ Sheu Review Film Review
It's not just a record of a life, it succeeds at doing what every biopic aspires to: It reanimates.
Full Review | Oct 5, 2021
Leo Brady AMovieGuy.com
A Quiet Passion is a dive into the mind and spirit of Miss Dickinson, who to this day, is a writer that changed the way words were put to the page.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 15, 2021
Aaron Pinkston Battleship Pretension
Despite the differences, A Quiet Passion still holds the moments of quiet beauty for which Davies is known...
Full Review | Jan 4, 2021
Leigh Monson Substream Magazine
A Quiet Passion is a fantastic exploration of depression and oppression in a context and tone which are not often explored.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 24, 2020
Carey-Ann Pawsey Orca Sound
A combination of Nixon's measured portrayal of the writer and Davies' in depth depiction of her life and loves really furnishes us with a clearer picture of the woman.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 21, 2020
Dustin Chang ScreenAnarchy
Davies succeeds in showing a complicated woman bound by tradition and societal rules. But however tragic and lonely her life was, he also shows us that Dickinson lived the way she wanted to...
Full Review | Jul 17, 2020
David Walsh World Socialist Web Site
Terence Davies has made an ambitious work...
Full Review | Jul 8, 2020
Erin Blackwell Bay Area Reporter
To say A Quiet Passion lasts two hours is to give the reader no clue as to the mind-numbing parade of disconnected scenes that stretches from school years through indistinguishable family sit-downs and walk-abouts and posings.
Full Review | Jun 8, 2020
Steven Prokopy Third Coast Review
A Quiet Passion is a lovely exercise in tone, visual perfection, and stellar performances.
Full Review | May 7, 2020
Tanner Tafelski Hyperallergic
To consider A Quiet Passion as simply a biopic is to reduce its virtues.
Full Review | Feb 6, 2020
Michael J. Casey Boulder Weekly
A match made in heaven.
Full Review | Aug 6, 2019
Mattie Lucas The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)
It's as alienating as it is engrossing, a lovely and deeply felt evocation of an artist's innermost anguish.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 4, 2019
Andrew Kendall Stabroek News
"A Quiet Passion" is not working to make us understand Emily, for Emily cannot understand herself. This Emily is no heroine, then, but simultaneously a banshee, recluse, jester, charmer and martyr.
Full Review | May 22, 2019
Cate Marquis We Are Movie Geeks
A Quiet Person is an excellent drama with a powerful, multi-layered performance by Cynthia Nixon.
Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 1, 2019
Eddie Falvey One Room With A View
Cynthia Nixon shines in a film that finds poetry in the everyday, grounding the elusive icon with wit, warmth, and humanity.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 15, 2019
Christopher Benfey The New York Review of Books
In A Quiet Passion, [Davies] has elicited a remarkable performance from Cynthia Nixon.
Full Review | Mar 8, 2019
Tara Judah Desist Film
One or two not entirely convincing performances of Dickinson's fits notwithstanding, A Quiet Passion is a fine, reverent film.
Full Review | Jan 24, 2019
Sarah Cartland Caution Spoilers
A gem of a film with Nixon riveting as the brilliant, steadfast and justifiably angry Dickinson, railing against convention. It can be an exhausting and deflating watch; all those literary allusions and high level wit that most of us could never sustain.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 19, 2018
Alexa Dalby Dog and Wolf
In his biopic of an ascetic who, unable to have the world on her terms, withdraws ever more into reclusion, Davies creates an impassioned gospel of suffering and pain.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 19, 2018
