Although tediously slow at points, Winter Passing has a purveyingly powerful familial dynamic from start to finish.

| Nov 6, 2019

While Deschanel is the reason to see Winter Passing, her support is nearly impeccable in keeping it from being a one-woman show.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 17, 2007

A cold, hard work inhabited by tortured or incidental characters who embody an interior journey that is neither entertaining nor cathartic.

| Mar 1, 2007

A strangely moving experience.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 14, 2006

Performances keep the film afloat and focused whenever it threatens to drift.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 7, 2006

Unfortunately, this too-dour film can't decide whether it wants to be a comedy or a drama. As a result, it doesn't really work as either.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 31, 2006

The comic moments fall flat while the serious stuff often is unintentionally funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 31, 2006

A film that feels like it will take forever to pass.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 22, 2006

What's real and true about Winter Passing is the relationship between Don and Reese, the father and daughter who wear their damaged dynamic on their sleeves for all to see.

Full Review | Mar 16, 2006

Winter Passing's quirky elements and light comedic touches fail to save it from its dark and lumbering premise.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 11, 2006

Midway through, Rapp loses momentum, failing to hone in on just what kind of movie he wants to make, and Winter Passing languishes in that no-man's land between tiny, meandering, indie drama and plotted, pointed family melodrama.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 11, 2006

This flawed drama about a self-destructive young actress and her reclusive novelist father has its rewards, mainly in some good performances.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 10, 2006

[Adam] Rapp's screenplay doesn't have much sympathy for its characters.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 10, 2006

[Zooey] Deschanel carries the heavy and sometimes uneven Winter Passing, which possesses not only a love of language but a moving adoration for the language of love.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 10, 2006

There are intriguing actors and ideas here, but only occasionally do they combine with convincing force.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 10, 2006

...a finding-yourself drama that gets lost in unnecessary character quirks.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 10, 2006

There isn't a spark in the familiar emotional situation or a reason to care how these amiably bland characters end up.

| Original Score: C | Mar 9, 2006

This is the kind of movie routinely dismissed as too slow and quiet by those who don't know it is more exciting to listen than to hear.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 9, 2006

It's a disturbing movie, particularly the first half, and one not easily digested.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 9, 2006

Winter Passing is one dull, extended encounter session among hackneyed characters.

| Mar 9, 2006