It is one of those very risky pieces of virtuosity which tend inevitably to distract the mind to questions of how it's done; but it's still beautiful.

| Oct 12, 2023

It is essentially an internal drama traversing a moral hinterland whose only real location is the soul. And its triumph is that, in externalising this troubled journey, the film so seldom trivialises it.

| Oct 11, 2023

Nicholson is cast almost willfully against type -- the idea of existential pain actually appearing on that sharp face seems improbable from the start -- but it works far better than at first I feared.

| Oct 11, 2023

The haunting drama is classic Antonioni, an existential quest for identity in an alienating world, and the cryptic plot and mysterious sense of emptiness plays even better with the remove of time.

| Oct 5, 2023

If vacuity had any weight, you could kill an ox by dropping on it Michelangelo Antonioni's latest film, The Passenger. Emptiness is everywhere: in landscapes and townscapes, churches and hotel rooms, and most of all in the script.

| Aug 4, 2020

This Antonioni film has a hypnotic quality that arouses deep reflections within me. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 15, 2020

The entire film feels like one long held breath as its characters fidget in anticipation of things they can't foresee or understand.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 25, 2020

The Passenger, like its protagonist, wanders about in such a state of deathly boredom that watching the film is rather like taking a sleeping pill.

| Dec 4, 2019

Michelangelo Antonioni's new film The Passenger is a visual masterpiece, frame for frame one of the most beautifully realized films in years.

| Jul 24, 2019

This is one of the most insufferable, pretentious, and boring movies I've seen in my life. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jul 10, 2019

It has all the elements of an action movie but remains stubbornly, intractably static. Antonioni is more interested in emptiness, the vast, barren landscapes an externalization of the void inside our protagonist.

| Apr 19, 2019

The Passenger is almost a masterpiece. Almost? That's because the plot, a thrillerish tangle about swapped identity in a menacing foreign country, begs for the pen of Patricia Highsmith.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 2, 2019

As a diagnosis of purposelessness the film is the most intelligent, engaging kind of misery.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jul 4, 2015

I can't say that I liked The Passenger at first-I think I'm coming to that-but I'm impressed, to say the very least.

| Mar 14, 2015

Earlier Antonioni films have often seemed studied, but not this one. Its details are easy and apropos.

| Jan 14, 2013

Boasting a great performance from Nicholson, Antonioni's third English-speaking film, arguably his last great work.

| Original Score: A | Jan 10, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | May 7, 2007

A bleak and moving drama with reflective performance from Jack Nicolson

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2006

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 23, 2006

What is more interesting than the 'whys' and 'hows' of the plot however, are the 'where' and 'when.'

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 29, 2006