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By S. Jhoanna Robledo (697) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 24 Apr 2017

Poet Emily Dickinson is focus of thoughtful, serious biopic…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 20 Apr 2017

The Emily of this movie seems to survive primarily to take everyone in her orbit to task…

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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 20 Apr 2017

A brilliant chronicling of a life lived quietly, one that is sweeping in its emotional depth rather than its narrative scope…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 13 Apr 2017

Like her writing, the film has a moody, dry exterior that conceals a fiendishly sharp wit…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 13 Apr 2017

Nixon vividly telegraphs both her character's convictions and her deep physical and emotional suffering…

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By James Verniere (1,180) for Boston Herald (1,433) on 13 Apr 2017

Nixon is splendid. Davies makes connection between the art and the life clear as light…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 13 Apr 2017

It is grounded, and made most exemplary, by Cynthia Nixon’s performance. Every actor in this movie is wonderful…

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By Nathalie Atkinson (93) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 13 Apr 2017

Sharp drawing-room repartee interrogates the same decorum and morality as her poems, although the frequently epigrammatic dialogue is mannered,…

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By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 12 Apr 2017

It's Davies's screenplay that carries the day-and it's quite possible that he has never written a script quite as full of sharp, cutting wit…

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By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 12 Apr 2017

The film delivers a beautiful, sometimes witty, often desperately sad portrait of an artist all too aware of the injustice of being unread…

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By Chris Knight (998) for National Post (1,405) on 12 Apr 2017

Davies isn't afraid to show the darker side of the sometimes melancholy poet - like the Turner biopic from a few years ago, this is the portrait…

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By John Nugent (191) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 12 Apr 2017

Thoughtful, emotional and often surprisingly funny, Terence Davies offers a rich if inconsistent portrait of a unique poet long deserving of…

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By Ella Taylor (978) for NPR (1,713) on 12 Apr 2017

Filmmaker and subject are a match made in heaven that, cohabiting in Davies' delirious head, gives histrionic a good name…

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By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Vox (725) on 12 Apr 2017

Cynthia Nixon plays Emily Dickinson, whose poetry and life is a perfect match for the signature style of director Terence Davies: rich in detail,…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for New York Times (5,786) on 12 Apr 2017

Mr…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 12 Apr 2017

No matter how you feel, we still get the poetry, stitched throughout the film and occasionally soaring above it like an uncaged bird: hard,…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 12 Apr 2017

What’s surprising about A Quiet Passion, given the writer-director’s own incurable melancholy, is how lively, how flat-out funny, it frequently…

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By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 12 Apr 2017

Like Dickinson's poetry, is alive, accessible and urgent…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 12 Apr 2017

Davies' screenplay is a marvel of wit and compassion, revealing humor and tragedy in the life of a woman few knew…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 11 Apr 2017

Cynthia Nixon is simply magnificent as Dickinson, finding the sharp wit and searching mind of a woman out of step with the codes and formalities…

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