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Tasha Robinson, Chicago Tribune: Trade's fictional drama is [hard] to believe, and impossible to justify. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The movie often seems to be exploiting as much as illuminating the problem. Read more
Ted Fry, Seattle Times: Trade has telegraphed the most sordid examples of the international child sex trade into a small, somewhat exploitative thriller. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: A documentary about sex trafficking might have been more powerful. Dramatizing the subject in this fashion, with a race-against-time road trip, breathless online bidding and a couple of different happy endings, simply cheapens it. Read more
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: It labors under the delusion that it's this year's revelatory, eye-opening Maria Full Of Grace, when it's little more than a B-movie with an overwrought conscience. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Human trafficking is an awful societal issue, and Trade happens to be an awful movie about human trafficking. Read more
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: This mostly effective dramatization paints a suitably ugly picture of the dehumanizing depths people are willing to go for money. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: As a movie, Trade is so-so, but as an expose of how the new globalized industry of sex trafficking really works, it's a disquieting, eye-opening bulletin. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Trade takes on a serious, under-addressed international crime against humanity in a style that is somewhere between TV melodrama and drive-in exploitation, undoing its obvious good intentions and some truly provocative moments. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: The filmmaker tries to keep the energy up and the audience engaged by incorporating stylistic touches from the Michael Bay 101 crib sheet, whirling the camera around characters in crisis and lacing scenes with hack guitar rock. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: The story of the victims on the road is harrowing, but the tale of the kind cop and the teenager with an attitude is a string of big brother cliches. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: A routine crime melodrama with art-house message-movie pretensions. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Grim, hard to take, and nightmare-producing, Trade is not for the faint of heart. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Comes off like TV-movie sensationalism, sidetracked by distracting backstories and hard-to-swallow plot twists. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A nasty, vile business, made more slimy because director Marco Kreuzpaintner doesn't trust the intrinsic interest of his story, and pumps it up with chase details, close calls, manufactured crises, and gratuitous scenes. Read more
G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle: Other than showing how a trafficking pipeline might work, Trade is a total misfire, a strange attempt at making a buddy movie featuring a morose Kevin Kline and a 17-year-old Mexican boy looking for his kidnapped sister. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: It gets high marks for its lofty intentions, but it is only mediocre as a thriller and is clunky in its presentation. Read more
Tom Huddlestone, Time Out: As cinema, 'Trade' is flawed: the script is functional and the dry characters are hemmed in by the machinations of an unremarkable plot. Read more
Robert Koehler, Variety: Little more than a slipshod, trashy, sometimes exploitative thriller. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: By introducing silly elements into a serious endeavor, the filmmakers undercut their own movie. In the end, we're watching a somewhat exploitative movie about exploitation. Read more