Possession: Critic Reviews

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Peter Rainer New York Magazine (Top Critic)

For a movie that purports to be about the passions of love and language, Possession is remarkably prim.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

60

This is Neil LaBute trying to do Jane Austen, from tone to subject matter to casting. And he's just no good at it.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Nell Minow Common Sense Media

80

Glossy romance with pretty people.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Rob Gonsalves eFilmCritic.com

80

A film like this rides on the quality of the acting, and the Brits -- Northam and Ehle -- invest their forbidden love with centuries of fine repressed English tradition.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Jeffrey Overstreet Looking Closer

42

We are led to smile nostalgically about this extramarital affair, not to contemplate the cost of unfaithfulness.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Judith Egerton Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)

63

Gwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart lead the cast, but their performances as modern characters rank second to Jeremy Northam and Jennifer Ehle.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Greg Maki Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

75

... LaBute shows he doesn't have to be mean-spirited to be an effective filmmaker.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Pablo Villaca Cinema em Cena

40

A ideia do amor tragico soa romantica para estes casais, o que e curioso. Mas, no geral, o filme e extremamente enfadonho.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Nick Rogers State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL)

88

A sumptuous, century-spanning romantic epic ... in other words, the last thing you'd expect from Neil LaBute
Full Review » 9 years ago
John R. McEwen Film Quips Online

70

Possession should be a rapturous, romantic film about an ancient passion so intense that it transcends historical boundaries. It should be, but it isn't.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Rebecca Murray About.com

67

There's nothing harried or rushed about the editing - the story builds naturally and with a steady rhythm all its own.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Robert Roten Laramie Movie Scope

75

Both a detective story and a romance spiced with the intrigue of academic skullduggery and politics.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Charlotte O'Sullivan Sight and Sound

The irony is that LaBute (revising a screenplay by Laura Jones) has added syrup to the romances and drained out the danger.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jean Lowerison San Diego Metropolitan

All four principals are just right in their roles.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Bruce Bennett Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

92

Gorgeously shot, impeccably written...it understands the beauty of its own subtlety.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Margaret A. McGurk Cincinnati Enquirer

75

Certainly qualifies as an old-fashioned romance, but it offers enough laughs and twists to qualify as a shiny new treat.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jamie Russell BBC

40

Suffocated by its fussy script and uptight characters, this musty adaptation is all the more annoying since it's been packaged and sold back to us by Hollywood.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Stephen Himes Film Snobs

50

Love, is best, served cold.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Josef Braun Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

Neil LaBute's most mature movie yet, the work of a moralist coming to terms with a world of blurred morals.
Full Review » 10 years ago
James Sanford Kalamazoo Gazette

would make an excellent companion piece to the similarly themed 'The French Lieutenant's Woman.'
Full Review » 10 years ago
Danny Minton KBTV-NBC (Beaumont, TX)

59

Most people will not enjoy, and should not see.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jim Chastain Norman Transcript

75

At first, I was critical of the cold and lifeless relationship between Roland and Maud. But, upon greater reflection, I realized that was exactly the point.
Full Review » 10 years ago
James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk

88

a film in which poetry and romanticism are celebrated and cherished
Full Review » 10 years ago
Gary Brown Houston Community Newspapers

88

A poignant love story of two couples interwoven between the present and 1859 England.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jimmy O Film Snobs

70

What could have been In the Company of Researchers ends up being a nastily fun romance.
Full Review » 10 years ago