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.

| Dec 14, 2022

It's not just a record of a life, it succeeds at doing what every biopic aspires to: It reanimates.

| Oct 5, 2021

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.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 15, 2021

Despite the differences, A Quiet Passion still holds the moments of quiet beauty for which Davies is known...

| Jan 4, 2021

A Quiet Passion is a fantastic exploration of depression and oppression in a context and tone which are not often explored.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 24, 2020

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 21, 2020

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...

| Jul 17, 2020

Terence Davies has made an ambitious work...

| Jul 8, 2020

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.

| Jun 8, 2020

A Quiet Passion is a lovely exercise in tone, visual perfection, and stellar performances.

| May 7, 2020

To consider A Quiet Passion as simply a biopic is to reduce its virtues.

| Feb 6, 2020

A match made in heaven.

| Aug 6, 2019

It's as alienating as it is engrossing, a lovely and deeply felt evocation of an artist's innermost anguish.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 4, 2019

"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.

| May 22, 2019

A Quiet Person is an excellent drama with a powerful, multi-layered performance by Cynthia Nixon.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 1, 2019

Cynthia Nixon shines in a film that finds poetry in the everyday, grounding the elusive icon with wit, warmth, and humanity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 15, 2019

In A Quiet Passion, [Davies] has elicited a remarkable performance from Cynthia Nixon.

| Mar 8, 2019

One or two not entirely convincing performances of Dickinson's fits notwithstanding, A Quiet Passion is a fine, reverent film.

| Jan 24, 2019

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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 19, 2018

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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 19, 2018