Passing (2021) - Critic Reviews - Page 2 of 3

21-40 of 46 Reviews

Sort by:

Review of Passing (2021)

By Jocelyn Noveck (253) for The Associated Press (882) on 28 Oct 2021

Rarely have the hues of black and white, cinematographically speaking, looked so beautifully lush as in Passing, the hugely impressive directorial…

Read Review

Review of Passing (2021)

By Odie Henderson (402) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 27 Oct 2021

Hall, Grau, editor Sabine Hoffman, and composer Devonté Hynes do an excellent job of casting a hypnotic spell on the audience…

Read Review

Review of Passing (2021)

By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 27 Oct 2021

The narrative moves toward its foregone conclusion with the low energy of a slow-moving locomotive on train tracks leading to a broken bridge…

Read Review

Review of Passing (2021)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 27 Oct 2021

[Hall] picks up on their contrasting energies, the way Negga eagerly draws the camera’s gaze while Thompson quietly deflects it…

Read Review

Review of Passing (2021)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 26 Oct 2021

After establishing the characters with such elegance and grace, the movie proceeds to nudge them toward an endpoint that is beautifully shot…

Read Review

Review of Passing (2021)

By Craig D. Lindsey (161) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 26 Oct 2021

As for the story itself, it often moves with a moody, morbid vagueness that makes the film seem like a Gothic ghost story, except that everyone’s…

Read Review

Review of Passing (2021)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 25 Oct 2021

It’s a sophisticated piece of work, slightly haunted, with an underlying sorrow that can’t be resolved or remedied…

Read Review

Review of Passing (2021)

By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 25 Oct 2021

This is a very personal project for Rebecca Hall, whose grandfather was Black but passed for white, and she has delivered an exquisitely crafted gem…

Read Review

Review of Passing (2021)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 03 Feb 2021

Passing is a beautifully rendered story that may be first and foremost about racial identity, though it enfolds so many ancillary reflections…

Read Review

Review of Passing (2021)

By Dave Calhoun (583) for Time Out (7,510) on 02 Feb 2021

The story passes from summer to winter, seasonally and tonally, and Hall’s chief allies in bringing her smart script to screen are Edu Grau’s…

Read Review

Review of Passing (2021)

By Lorry Kikta (141) for Film Threat (5,156) on 02 Feb 2021

Hall has crafted a masterpiece of nostalgic filmmaking…

Read Review

Review of Passing (2021)

By Matthew Anderson (173) for CineVue (2,163) on 02 Feb 2021

An impressive, lingering debut from Hall, Passing exists as a fragile, precious, impossible reverie within a snow globe that could shatter…

Read Review

Review of Passing (2021)

By Valerie Complex (58) for Consequence (296) on 02 Feb 2021

There just isn’t enough clarity to properly gauge what Passing is trying to say and who it’s for beyond the dazzling portraits and memorable…

Read Review

Review of Passing (2021)

By Chris Barsanti (896) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Feb 2021

A sickened rage and psychological nuance courses through every meticulously arranged frame of the film…

Read Review

Review of Passing (2021)

By Rōgan Graham (10) for Total Film (3,532) on 02 Feb 2021

A visually stunning directorial debut that’s too intimidated by the original source material to be effective…

Read Review

Review of Passing (2021)

By Tim Robey (1,578) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 01 Feb 2021

Alive to pulse-quickening details of body language and the conversational codes by which a dangerous friendship lives or dies, the film is…

Read Review

Review of Passing (2021)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 01 Feb 2021

This radically intimate exploration of the desperately fraught concept of “passing” — being Black but pretending to be white — ought…

Read Review

Review of Passing (2021)

By Kate Erbland (681) for IndieWire (3,631) on 01 Feb 2021

Hall made many good choices for her debut — her entire crafts department turned in rich period production elements — but the casting of…

Read Review

Review of Passing (2021)

By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 01 Feb 2021

The muted elegance of Passing’s design proves to be a deft feint for a film full of passion and profound longing, highlighted by two controlled…

Read Review

Review of Passing (2021)

By Carlos Aguilar (278) for TheWrap (3,203) on 01 Feb 2021

For all the technique that she demonstrates in Passing, it’s the way Hall mines praiseworthy turns from her cast that will earn her the most…

Read Review

Page 2 of 3

More reviews of this movie:

Passing (2021) Movie Reviews (70)
Passing (2021) User Reviews (24)

Perhaps you were looking for:

Winter Passing (2006)

Tessa Thompson - Top 5 movies:

Gbenga Akinnagbe - Top 5 movies:

Ruth Negga - Top 5 movies:

Movies you might like:

Dead Presidents

1995

69%353 Reviews

Awakenings

1990

80%583 Reviews

A Room with a View

1986

76%563 Reviews

Coco Before Chanel

2009

65%619 Reviews

Red Road

2006

70%367 Reviews

Picnic at Hanging Rock

1975

78%570 Reviews

The Hunger

1983

61%489 Reviews

Vanity Fair

2004

56%565 Reviews

Following

1999

74%677 Reviews

Thirteen

2003

72%630 Reviews

Paper Moon

1973

83%476 Reviews

Elegy

2008

66%49 Reviews