A Quiet Passion

Every shot is beautifully composed and lit – as we have come to expect – and the actors deliver every line with absolute conviction.

Every actor in this movie is wonderful. But Nixon’s precision in portraying every particular mood of Emily—for each individual scene calls for absolute specificity—is simply spectacular.

Cynthia Nixon is Excellent as Emily Dickinson

...it is very effective – chilling, even – in its charting of one woman’s disappointed journey to the rhetorical coda of her own life...

Thoughtful, emotional and often surprisingly funny, Terence Davies offers a rich if inconsistent portrait of a unique poet long deserving of a big-screen study.