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Unable to find the war he has been asked to cover, a frustrated war correspondent takes the risky path of co-opting the identity of a dead arms-deal acquaintance. (PG, 126 min.)
7:00 PM
Staff Picks 2026 @ Moxie Cinema
Every month a member of the Moxie staff picks a film that impacted their lives and we put it up on the big screen. The Staff Picks series is Free for Members.
September's pick was made by Tanner Caruthers.
Originally released in 1975, The Passenger is, on the simplest level, a suspense story about a man trying to escape his own life. This haunting film is a portrait of a drained journalist, played by Jack Nicholson, whose deliverance is an identity exchange with a dead man. The film was shot on location and takes Nicholson on an incredible journey through Africa, Spain, Germany and England. [Sony Picture Classics]
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Steven Berkoff, Ian Hendry
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Language(s): English, German, Spanish, French
Genre: Drama, Thriller
"Antonioni's 1975 landmark."
— Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"The best of Antonioni's three English-language pictures."
— Dave Calhoun, Time Out
"One of the deepest, most rigorous, and most rewarding films of its era."
— Ty Burr, Boston Globe
"A bleak and moving drama with reflective performance from Jack Nicolson."
— David Parkinson, Empire Magazine
"Michelangelo Antonioni's film about a man on the run from himself dazzles from first shot to last."
— Manohla Dargis, New York Times
"A creator of lonely worlds, Mr. Antonioni painted one of his most vivid portraits of isolation with The Passenger."
— Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News
"A fatalistic tale of identity, destiny, coincidence, existential malaise, and the boundaries between the real and the imagined."
— Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
"Thanks to Luciano Tovoli's magnificent cinematography of the African desert and the arid Spanish countryside, we gain a potent sense of Locke's internal emptiness."
— Tom Dawson, BBC.com
"It is essentially an internal drama traversing a moral hinterland whose only real location is the soul. And its triumph is that, in externalising this troubled journey, the film so seldom trivialises it."
— Derek Malcolm, Guardian
"It's a movie from the past that still points ahead to the future: a cinematic rite of passage that raptly recalls a time when the world may have been as uncertain as now, but the movies were often lovelier and more daring."
— Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
"A movie with which one can grow old, in the same sense that one can see great productions of Hamlet at 15 and 40 and 70 years of age, measuring the relative depth of one's experience of life and the world against its mature vision."
— Tom Keogh, Seattle Times
