
Nineteen-year-old Jason and Ade have been in the Academy of a famous London football club since they were eight years old. It's the night before their first-ever game for the first team - a Champions League match - and they're in a hotel room in Romania. They should be sleeping, but they're over-excited. They skip, fight, mock each other, prepare their kit, watch a teammate's sex tape - and then, out of nowhere, one of them kisses the other. The impact of this 'pass' reverber... (Full plot summary below)
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Nineteen-year-old Jason and Ade have been in the Academy of a famous London football club since they were eight years old. It's the night before their first-ever game for the first team - a Champions League match - and they're in a hotel room in Romania. They should be sleeping, but they're over-excited. They skip, fight, mock each other, prepare their kit, watch a teammate's sex tape - and then, out of nowhere, one of them kisses the other. The impact of this 'pass' reverberates through the next ten years of their lives - a decade of fame and failure, secrets and lies, in a sporting world where image is everything.
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| GuardianPeter BradshawThe film is a bit stagey sometimes, but ambitious and insightful. Tovey is excellent as he shows someone progressing from innocence to fear and then to loneliness. |
| Total FilmJosh WinningThe Pass is narratively simplistic but psychologically complex. |
| The SkinnyPhilip ConcannonThe key virtues of John Donnelly's play have survived the process of adaptation intact, namely Donnelly's sharp writing and a tremendous lead performance by Russell Tovey. |
| Radio TimesJames LuxfordThoughtfully written and terrifically acted, The Pass is an insightful and brutally honest look at the price of "making it". |
| London Evening StandardCharlotte O'SullivanWilliams's wrenching yarn dissects various betrayals and offers a useful reminder: when it's all about the brand, we're all fair game. |
| The Arts DeskTom BirchenoughAn independent British production that manages the transfer from stage to screen more than gamely. |
| Shadows on the WallRich ClineTovey holds the film together with a superbly transparent, brittle performance. |
| The Mail on Sunday (UK)Matthew BondThe film makes little effort to conceal its theatrical origins -- the heightened-reality style works well on stage but struggles to convince here. |
| HeyUGuysStefan PapeThough undoubtedly a flawed endeavour, it's imperative we add to the discussion of homosexuality in football, as a theme barely discussed in real life, never mind up on the big screen, as we scrutinise over the ugliest side of the beautiful game. |
| Empire MagazineIan FreerRussell Tovey gives a layered, career-best performance in an intense interior drama that never quite shakes its theatrical origins. |