'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

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

One's ultimate reaction is likely to one of indifference, bemusement or outright disdain considering the pedigree of the filmmaker helming the project: Brian De Palma.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 12, 2013

Despite De Palma's lavish proof of what he can accomplish with classical technique, the movie comes off as too much for too little, a collection of mechanisms that decorate mechanisms.

| Sep 2, 2013

After the clinically dull first half, it's more desperate pantry raid than feast.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 30, 2013

Entrancing and narcotizing in about equal measure.

| Aug 30, 2013

I have no objection to DePalma laughing at himself. But his heart's not in it. Neither is his libido. Passion lacks the promise of its title. It's dead inside.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 30, 2013

"Passion" is often sleek and enjoyable, dispensing titillation, suspense and a few laughs without taking itself too seriously.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2013

Mostly it's another opportunity for this most self-referential of directors to dip once again into his well-worn bag of tricks.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 29, 2013

In a film that isn't so good ... excess becomes a lot less enjoyable. And "Passion" isn't so good.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 29, 2013

With no heat at all and a woefully disjointed cast, De Palma's danse macabre never catches fire.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 29, 2013

One of [De Palma's] sillier and trashier pictures, with nothing much to recommend it apart from those long-delayed bravura sequences.

| Original Score: C | Aug 29, 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.

| Original Score: C | Aug 28, 2013

Those who submit to the movie's spell may well find themselves giddy at how viscerally and confidently an old master can deploy the tools of his trade.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 27, 2013

Passion is pretty good. If you cared enough to make a list, it might be your fifth or sixth favorite De Palma.

| Aug 27, 2013

...at once a classy suspense movie and an unquestionably silly affair. Regardless of its glaring flaws, "Passion" is reassuringly old school.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 27, 2013

This tarted-up English-language remake affords some modestly campy pleasures, but lacks the delirious trash-horror verve of De Palma's best work.

| Aug 26, 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.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 6, 2013

Passion smacks of self-parody; by the time De Palma makes his way to some intended-to-be-jolting final shots, I found myself laughing out loud at his shamelessness.

| Aug 2, 2013

All the problems that I have with Passion narratively are overshadowed by the fact that De Palma the visual master has shown signs of life for the first time in a decade.

| Original Score: 3.0/5.0 | Aug 2, 2013