| 68 |
Mr. Showbiz
Works best as romantic melodrama and is least convincing as a psychological suspenser.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
There's no Passion in this psychological drama.
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| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
By the ending of the film, which is unconvincingly neat, I was distracted by too many questions to care about the answers.
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| 50 |
USA Today
Pretty hard to buy into at all.
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| 50 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Though a hypnotically beautiful film, it's dramatically listless and dull, and completely lacking in passion.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
Leaves the viewer exhausted, jet-lagged from the effort of investing equally in competing story lines.
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| 50 |
New York Post
A shallow, stilted romantic thriller.
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| 50 |
Chicago Tribune
Marc Caro
It's pretty muddle-headed and confusing.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
At its most interesting, and a bit frightening, when Moore starts to get a little loony. Too bad they didn't follow through and make this more of a psychological thriller than a melodrama.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
What may have looked good on paper across the Atlantic gets lost in the translation to our shores.
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| 40 |
Austin Chronicle
Moore succeeds, even though the film as a whole does not fare as well.
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| 38 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
It's too gauzy, and - with its Ron Bass script - too goopy by half.
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| 38 |
Christian Science Monitor
The acting is sincere and the camera work is pretty, but this art-movie variation on "The Sixth Sense" doesn't have enough energy to fulfill the high promise of Berliner's previous picture, the enchanting "Ma vie en rose."
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| 33 |
Entertainment Weekly
Nobody's got a clue. Enquiring minds don't even want to know.
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| 30 |
Los Angeles Times
Eric Harrison
Like a hall of mirrors, casting back at us distorted images from other movies. It even calls to mind "The Sixth Sense." It isn't engaging in the least.
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| 30 |
Chicago Reader
Slick and effective escapism with a touch of poetry (a la "The Sixth Sense") that left me vaguely dissatisfied once the mystery was supposedly resolved.
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| 25 |
Miami Herald
Berliner deserves something better, as do all the actors -- even Moore, who's starting to look very interesting and European.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Examiner
Moore can't help but be rotten. She has no grace and little nuance, which is why she's always best as a hard-ass in movies.
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| 25 |
Portland Oregonian
So tedious that the experience results in nearly two hours of squirming and cringing.
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| 20 |
Variety
This small-scale, chamber piece, which boasts good acting from Moore, Skarsgard and Fichtner, has a strong built-in appeal for women but may experience harder times in going beyond the specialized arthouse circuits due to the narrowly-scoped, undernourished script.
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| 20 |
Film.com
Are two Demis better than one? How you answer will determine the level of patience you'll need to sit through this bizarre pet project.
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| 20 |
Rolling Stone
An indigestible chunk of romantic marshmallow.
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| 20 |
Village Voice
An out-of-body experience for its viewers as well as its heroine.
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| 20 |
Dallas Observer
Less a spiritual quest than a very self-indulgent gimmick movie that could use a strong shot of inspiration.
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| 20 |
LA Weekly
It's hard to imagine a movie at once more pandering and insulting to adult women
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| 20 |
Washington Post
You won't feel enlightened, just let down
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| 20 |
The New York Times
It's hard to take Passion seriously because it brings to mind the kind of shallow psychology that wouldn't be out of place in a history short about Sigmund Freud on "ABC Schoolhouse Rock."
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