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By Stephanie Merry (410) for Washington Post (9,851) on 10 May 2017

Davies is a master of the slow build, lyrically evoking the dreaminess and gravity of his subject and her verse…

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By Tara Thorne (211) for The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (715) on 09 May 2017

The dependably astonishing Cynthia Nixon is Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion, the latest in Terence Davies' exquisitely made string of costume…

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By Barry Paris (96) for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (258) on 04 May 2017

A Quiet Passion, director Terence Davies' beautiful but problematic biopic, wastes no time establishing its heroine as iconoclastic…

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By Josh Terry (603) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 04 May 2017

Overall, A Quiet Passion is interesting if not always enjoyable, although it gets better as it moves along and will probably resonate most…

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By Anita Katz (182) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 04 May 2017

While far from flawless, this movie doesn't leave you feeling empty…

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By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 04 May 2017

The rich imagery and controlled composition seem alternately to highlight Dickinson's unfettered art and to mock her sadly fettered life…

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By Robert Horton (590) for Seattle Weekly (293) on 04 May 2017

What if the cinematic approach to the poet's life could approximate her eccentric punctuation-full of dashes where commas usually roam-her…

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By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 04 May 2017

Alternately theatrical and cinematic, stilted and impassioned, A Quiet Passion may not stick tightly to the known facts of Dickinson's biography,…

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By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 03 May 2017

A Quiet Passion…

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By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 03 May 2017

This is an admirable and moving film but, unfortunately its virtues don't begin to include some of the greatest virtues of its subject…

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By Kimberley Jones (866) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 03 May 2017

A Quiet Passion’s manneredness overwhelmed me at times, but it is very effective – chilling, even – in its charting of one woman’s…

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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 03 May 2017

There are moments of astonishing lyricism…

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By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 03 May 2017

Director Terence Davies dispenses of any gaudy romantic trappings and makes something much more beautiful in A Quiet Passion, a delicate and…

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By Kelly Vance (1,015) for East Bay Express (1,012) on 02 May 2017

As imagined by actor Nixon and her supporting players, Emily might as well be one of those pressed flowers, shut up in a book to amaze and…

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By Kristen Yoonsoo Kim (115) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 30 Apr 2017

Davies chooses to mark Dickinson's life story not so much by specific events, but by her character, and Nixon captures the many facets of it…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue (704) on 27 Apr 2017

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 27 Apr 2017

Davies specializes in period pieces and here he captures Dickinson's miserable isolation and terrible intelligence perfectly…

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By Gerald Peary (163) for Arts Fuse (166) on 26 Apr 2017

Cynthia Nixon is a great Emily, so deeply angry, so heartbreaking in her fool's life of stoic suffering…

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By Janet Smith (81) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 26 Apr 2017

No lie: it's a difficult film, dense with words and ideas, focused on an often frustrating protagonist…

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By Tara Brady (805) for Irish Times (1,391) on 25 Apr 2017

Davies works Dickinson's poetry into the script, resulting in violently bipolar shifts in mood and overly mannered dialogue…

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