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By Edward Porter (366) for Sunday Times (UK) (753) on 09 Apr 2017

Terence Davies is British cinema's great chronicler of subdued, pent-up existences…

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By Graciela F (2) on 09 Apr 2017

I'm a former critic who gave it up some years ago when I ran out of synonyms for lousy…

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By Simran Hans (401) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 08 Apr 2017

Tension is the film's main preoccupation and its most precise profundity: the blunt, exhausting pain of living alone and in one's own head…

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By Michael N (591) on 08 Apr 2017

Simply terrible. I have never left a movie early before in my life. This was the first. Just never got going, boring, boring, boring…

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By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 06 Apr 2017

Nixon's Dickinson is simultaneously fearless and brittle, and her superb performance helps vivify a film that is, by necessity, housebound…

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By Roe Mcdermott (197) for Hot Press (197) on 06 Apr 2017

As if to evoke the poet's famous use of dashes, ellipses and commas, the film manages to be an exercise in controlled fitfulness…

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By Thirza Wakefield (8) for Sight and Sound (827) on 06 Apr 2017

A Quiet Passion has all the wished-for clarity - of vision and of character - but it is not so certain of its subject as to enclose her and…

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By Matt Wolf (69) for The Arts Desk (640) on 06 Apr 2017

Davies's screenplay is remarkable mostly for an archness and artifice that are only partially redeemed by several of the performances -- from…

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By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 06 Apr 2017

As with Davies's last film, Sunset Song, practically every frame could be a painting. He is a cherish-ably singular film-maker…

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By Deborah Ross (530) for The Spectator (1,162) on 05 Apr 2017

As a general rule poetry does not make good cinema, but this one succeeds more than most…

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By Kate Muir (612) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 05 Apr 2017

Nixon is superb as Emily Dickinson, the 19th-century poet who, along with Walt Whitman, took American verse into the modern age…

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By Josh Winning (84) for Total Film (3,532) on 05 Apr 2017

Nixon captures the frustration of a woman out of her time, raging against religion, sexism and war, and imbuing Dickinson with a wry sense…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 05 Apr 2017

This is a moving and engrossing film, and a wonderful performance from Nixon, who combines delicacy with angularity; vulnerability and defiance…

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By Nigel Andrews (1,359) for Financial Times (1,822) on 05 Apr 2017

Davies depicts suffocation near-suffocatingly. To love the film you just have to spend time in the pressure chamber of its singularity…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 05 Apr 2017

Achingly sensitive in all departments, not least in Nixon's quiveringly intense bluestocking workout. But it aches too loudly…

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By Sophie Monks Kaufman (221) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 05 Apr 2017

Dickinson is a lifelong spectator, but Nixon imbues her with pathos via an exquisitely pained sensitivity…

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By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 04 Apr 2017

This contrast between inner life and outer claustrophobia seeps through each frame of A Quiet Passion, which manages to both grasp at the essence…

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By Ana C (170) on 03 Apr 2017

Cynthia nixon transfixes with her embodiment of the poet; it was almost too much for my heart. oscar worthy performance…

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By Josh Slater-Williams (157) for The Skinny (809) on 02 Apr 2017

Emily Dickinson is played by Cynthia Nixon, in a nuanced turn that remains a vital anchor…

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By Erika W. Smith (54) for Bust Magazine (182) on 30 Mar 2017

Much of what's interesting about Dickinson comes from her written work, and while writer/director Terence Davies attempts to derive drama from…

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