| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
C |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris |
"...an awful movie..." more... |
D+ |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"...the movie seems to have an unwholesome determination to show us the victims being terrified and threatened. When I left the screening, I just didn't feel right." more... |
D |
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman |
"As a movie, Trade is so-so, but as an exposé of how the new globalized industry of sex trafficking really works, it's a disquieting, eye-opening bulletin." more... |
B- |
filmcritic.com
Chris Barsanti |
"...a jarring mess of a movie..." more... |
C- |
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust |
"This mostly effective dramatization paints a suitably ugly picture of the dehumanizing depths people are willing to go for money." more... |
B- |
New York Post
Kyle Smith |
"...improbable situations, heavy reliance on coincidence and an improbable climax nearly tip the film into TV-movie territory." more... |
C |
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis |
"...teeters between earnest exposé and salacious melodrama." more... |
C- |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"To its credit, the film avoids titillation but, at the same time, it is so full of moral outrage that there's no sense of drama." more... |
C |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"If you're a parent of a young child, Trade is a movie that's guaranteed to make you lose sleep." more... |
B |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"...a compelling and terrifying look at a serious global problem." more... |
B |
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