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

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

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

| Jan 14, 2013

A bleak and moving drama with reflective performance from Jack Nicolson

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

What in different hands would have been a bombastic psychological thriller becomes a stark study of existential alienation.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 12, 2006

A classic of a difficult and alienating kind, but one that really does shimmer in the mind like a remembered dream.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 24, 2006

Thanks to Luciano Tovoli's magnificent cinematography of the African desert and the arid Spanish countryside, we gain a potent sense of Locke's internal emptiness.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 30, 2006

The best of Antonioni's three English-language pictures.

| Feb 9, 2006

The Passenger is a marvel of quiet insight in many ways, not least of which is the chance to view Jack Nicholson before he became JACK NICHOLSON.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 13, 2006

A creator of lonely worlds, Mr. Antonioni painted one of his most vivid portraits of isolation with The Passenger.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 1, 2005

A movie with which one can grow old, in the same sense that one can see great productions of Hamlet at 15 and 40 and 70 years of age, measuring the relative depth of one's experience of life and the world against its mature vision.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 18, 2005

Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger is more than the re-release of a great film -- it's a rare chance to see a major cinematic work, perhaps more than once, on the big screen.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 11, 2005

One of the deepest, most rigorous, and most rewarding films of its era.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 11, 2005

It's a movie from the past that still points ahead to the future: a cinematic rite of passage that raptly recalls a time when the world may have been as uncertain as now, but the movies were often lovelier and more daring.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 10, 2005

The film's final seven-minute shot is one of the great denouements in film history.

| Original Score: A | Nov 3, 2005

Antonioni's 1975 landmark.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 3, 2005

The Passenger isn't finally the masterpiece some have made it out to be, but it retains a singular intrigue: It's the first, and probably the last, thriller ever made about depression.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 2, 2005

The Passenger has lost none of its power in 30 years.

| Oct 26, 2005

Leisurely and old-fashioned as The Passenger may be, this tour de force ending is worth the wait.

Full Review | Oct 26, 2005