Trouble Every Day 2001

Chris Fujiwara, Boston Globe: Trouble Every Day is a success in some sense, but it's hard to like a film so cold and dead. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: The story of Trouble Every Day ... is so sketchy it amounts to little more than preliminary notes for a science-fiction horror film, and the movie's fragmentary narrative style makes piecing the story together frustrating difficult. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: ... a film that is profoundly disturbing, yet hauntingly unforgettable. Read more

Mark Rahner, Seattle Times: I'm not sure these words have ever been together in the same sentence: This erotic cannibal movie is boring. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: What's needed so badly but what is virtually absent here is either a saving dark humor or the feel of poetic tragedy. Read more

Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Denis is an extraordinarily reticent storyteller. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: A hysterical yet humorless disquisition on the thin line between sucking face and literally sucking face. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Watching Trouble Every Day, at least if you don't know what's coming, is like biting into what looks like a juicy, delicious plum on a hot summer day and coming away with your mouth full of rotten pulp and living worms. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Here the love scenes all end in someone screaming. Maybe there's a metaphor here, but figuring it out wouldn't make Trouble Every Day any better. Read more

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Keith Uhlich, Time Out: Denis shoots this grisly-erotic roundelay in her distinctively woozy and elliptical style. Read more

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J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Purposefully shocking in its eroticized gore, if unintentionally dull in its lack of poetic frissons. Read more