All the director’s themes are at play in Passion: obsession, voyeurism, eroticism, murder, and the warped mind of a killer—they’re all present. But they never come alive in the sensational way they do in his best films.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 30, 2022

The beginning and the end are solidly, hilariously ridiculous.

| May 27, 2020

Yes, it's free on Netflix, but can you get that time back? No.

| Mar 26, 2020

Passion is just too silly to hold to any high esteem, even as high class camp.

| Aug 22, 2019

Filled with dumb plot twists, schemes and hammy performances from Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace, Passion is De Palma gleefully making a mess and daring the audience to keep watching.

| Jun 22, 2019

Hopelessly dull and flat... Sadly, Passion is merely reduced to silly-minded sensual cinema as it awkwardly echoes DePalma's earlier influences with psychological thrillers.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 17, 2018

Despite the low vs. high dialectic, Passion is saying nothing of substance about cultural relativism or commodification.

| Nov 7, 2017

As much as [De Palma] beautifies this mess-the movie's so sleek, you'll worry that the cast is gonna slip off the damn screen-it's still a mess.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 25, 2017

There isn't a lot of passion in Brian De Palma's Passion but there is a love of kinkiness, flirtation, sensation, and the thrill of playing big business games and an odd intimacy that we don't always get in De Palma...

| Oct 6, 2017

'Passion' is, outside of its cinephile-pleasing gestures, a pretty bad movie. If it bore any other filmmaker's name, would we cut it the same slack?

| Jun 19, 2016

This trashy agenda could have a certain appeal if it were executed with wry humour or nightmarish obsessiveness -- as in, say, De Palma's Dressed To Kill -- but this time around the whole thing feels so vapid, so dated.

| May 10, 2016

Delirious, exquisite trash.

Full Review | Apr 28, 2015

This film is an old-fashioned glove that still fits De Palma pretty comfortably.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 10, 2014

Like late-period Hitchcock, you hang in there because there's enough zing left on the screen to let you know you're watching a real filmmaker at work-but the payoffs never really come and certainly the movie never lives up to its title.

| Jun 28, 2014

Brian De Palma has enough great movies in his filmography that he can always count on remaining one of my all-time favorite directors. But, man, it sure would be nice if he made at least one wholly successful film in the 21st century.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 18, 2014

The plot is secondary to the delightfully strange and impeccably soapy vibes; the marriage of camp and cheap Euro-eroticism masquerading as serious art.

| Original Score: B | Feb 4, 2014

The film works toward its own gleeful deconstruction, bringing as many cliches of the genre into its orbit so that they can be obliterated together.

| Dec 13, 2013

De Palma wallows in the excesses of his cutthroat corporate connivers ... Virtually actor proof, his movie withstands performances that aren't as wild and liberated as his direction.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 14, 2013

Passion is bright, shiny and lurid. It's just that it feels, well, passionless.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 10, 2013

What we have here is a tale of lust, deception, manipulation and murder. Quintessential De Palma, in other words.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 26, 2013