Human Trafficking
Lifetime | Release Date: October 24, 2005
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
4
Negative:
4
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
New York PostLinda Stasi
Season 1 Review: Not only an important series, but a darned good, action-packed one. Read full review
80
Chicago TribuneSid Smith
Season 1 Review: "Human Trafficking" manages edge-of-your-seat suspense and an unsettling blend of Dickensian horrors and documentary-style realism. Read full review
80
The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley
Season 1 Review: It is unusually good: a harsh public-service message built into a clever, suspenseful thriller. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyAndrew Clevenger
Season 1 Review: The movie's tone teeters on the edge of self-righteousness, but the glassy-eyed numbness of the enslaved girls is a devastating portrayal of their living nightmare. [28 Oct 2005, p.77]
75
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: Some parts work well; others don't. Read full review
70
NewsdayDiane Werts
Season 1 Review: Like many Lifetime productions, this one is designed to make you stand up and take action on a hot-button issue. Unlike many, it's got the dramatic chops to keep you on your feet applauding. Read full review
60
Kansas City StarAaron Barnhart
Season 1 Review: It’s a grim two hours... But it’s not overly explicit, and the script and talent are better than most Lifetime films. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron
Season 1 Review: Perhaps inevitably, with all that focus on the educational component, the story gets short shrift. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesPaul Brownfield
Season 1 Review: "Human Trafficking" is at once a sobering, tough-to-watch dramatization about girls taken from the streets of their hometowns around the world and sold into sexual servitude and a clichéd drama about said topic. Read full review
50
People WeeklyTom Gliatto
Season 1 Review: It's an awful story, and it deserves a better production than this. [31 Oct 2005, p.39]
30
L.A. WeeklyRobert Abele
Season 1 Review: Rarely rises above the level of cut-and-dried cops-and-bad-guys tale. Read full review
20
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: Sorvino is as wooden as can be throughout. Perhaps she didn't connect with her poorly written role; perhaps she's just straining to understate. Read full review
20
Variety
Season 1 Review: Starring a miscast Mira Sorvino, "Human Trafficking" bludgeons its point home for nearly four hours, and then closes with an honest-to-God speech to ensure that nobody missed it. Read full review
10
Washington PostTom Shales
Season 1 Review: Except for a few suspenseful sequences in which women and, occasionally, sympathetic parties try to escape the clutches of the slave traders, the miniseries is muddled, confused and diffuse. Read full review
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