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By Donald Clarke (1,051) for The Irish Times (483) on 29 Oct 2021

Passing is, in some ways, a slender story…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 28 Oct 2021

There is such sensitivity and intelligence in the performances from Thompson and Negga and the cinematography from Eduard Grau and production…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 28 Oct 2021

Passing is an impressionistic experience, much like the Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou piano piece that composer Devonté Hynes incorporates…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 28 Oct 2021

The movie has a magnetic quality that’s all the more welcome because of all the weighty issues forming its foundation…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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

Hall has crafted a masterpiece of nostalgic filmmaking…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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