Trespass Against Us
A24 | Release Date: January 20, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
50
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Mixed or average reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
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5
Mixed:
9
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
The PlaylistNoel MurraySep 23, 2016
While it’s tricky to pin down exactly what Trespass Against Us means to be, it’s easy to enjoy what it actually is. Read full review
80
Time Out LondonDave CalhounFeb 27, 2017
It’s a teasing celebration of outsiderdom without being a full-on endorsement Read full review
80
Screen DailyAllan HunterSep 23, 2016
Dynamic storytelling and powerful performances bring out the pathos in an unusual tale of conflicting loyalties set on the criminal edges of a travelling community. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJan 20, 2017
Director Adam Smith (shooting Alastair Siddons’ inventive script) doesn’t hit the mark with every chance he takes, but for the most part this is an admirable and successful effort. Read full review
67
IndieWireDavid EhrlichSep 23, 2016
It’s a crime drama chewed up by a cheeky sense of humor — or, maybe it’s a quirky comedy set against the miserable campgrounds that lie on the fringes of the criminal underworld. Read full review
60
Total FilmJames MottramMar 6, 2017
There’s Fassbender’s charisma, an unhinged Sean Harris and Tom Rowland music. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangJan 19, 2017
Smith may have some ways to go as a feature filmmaker, but he has given us a world of such grottily realized depravity that it feels like a story unto itself. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Jan 18, 2017
Try as its talented cast does to pump some life into these desperate archetypes, it’s impossible not to draw unflattering comparisons with other, better films. Read full review
58
The Film StageChristopher SchobertSep 23, 2016
It’s a so-so affair offering momentary pleasures. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzJan 26, 2017
It would be nice to say the drama redeems itself with a scene of Fassbender absconding with the cutest puppy ever captured on film, but even that cannot save almost two hours’ worth of narrative dithering and four-letter conversations. Read full review
50
ObserverRex ReedJan 25, 2017
Plotless and illogical. Read full review
50
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisJan 19, 2017
Though thematically vague, thinly plotted and without a reliably sympathetic soul to cling to, the movie has a mutinous energy and an absurd, knockabout charm. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeSep 23, 2016
Instead of exploding into crime-clan war, the picture trickles into a kind of shrugging, "it is what it is" look at life on the wrong side of the law. Read full review
40
The GuardianJordan HoffmanSep 23, 2016
Everything about this picture is at such a deliberate arm’s length that it is hard to know what is meant to be whimsical and what is serious melodrama. Read full review
20
VarietyOwen GleibermanSep 23, 2016
It’s hard to say what the title of Trespass Against Us actually means, but then it’s hard to know what anything in this movie thinks it’s about. Even Ed Wood would have said, “Needs work.” Read full review
12
RogerEbert.comGodfrey CheshireJan 20, 2017
Though many bad movies are simply depressing, Adam Smith’s Trespass Against Us is so exceptionally bad that it at least has this bright sidelight: Unless 2017 turns into a truly disastrous time for movies, it may be the worst of the year is already here. Read full review
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