Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
positive
2(18%)
mixed
3(27%)
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May 5, 2011
65
Fox and Rourke embody Lily and Nate's lost souls with vulnerability that's at once strikingly sincere and strange, particularly for two actors renowned for their impunity both on and off screen.
May 6, 2011
63
Even when scary, Murray is somehow funny, too, and he steals the show as always.
May 3, 2011
50
The reality is that Passion Play has a few good ideas that simply don't hold together. More of a miscalculation than an outright dud, it takes the form of a wildly surreal western fantasy, something that Chilean madman Alejandro Jodorowsky ("El Topo") could have executed with more rigorous invention.
May 11, 2011
42
This underworld fairy tale is so soggy and sentimental it's like a new genre: Hallmark noir.
May 2, 2011
40
If the degree of laughter at the wrong moments and the number of walkouts at the Toronto International Film Festival are any indication, the film will appeal only to the most fondly indulgent.
May 2, 2011
30
Perversely eccentric and frequently inert, screenwriter Mitch Glazer's directorial debut, Passion Play, will benefit from some of the well-known names attached, but the near-painful hipness of the production will yield poisonous word of mouth.
May 3, 2011
20
You can take the phoenix-rising actor out of straight-to-video trash, but-well, you know the rest of it.
May 5, 2011
16
Passion Play doesn't overreach so much as it overindulges in aimless pacing, inert acting, and a romance maudlin enough to make "Twilight" look restrained.
May 5, 2011
10
Inexplicably filmed in a handful of styles - including, bizarrely, obviously processed shots - by cinematographer Christopher Doyle, Passion Play would be midnight-movie fodder if it weren't so drearily wrapped up in its wounded-male aesthetic and a clumsy approach to art-movie moodiness that was abandoned in the '80s.
May 5, 2011
10
Every now and then a movie's awfulness rises to the level of mystery.
