Women in Trouble 2009

David Fear, Time Out: The film borrows beaucoup Almodovarisms -- multilayered hysterical heroines, a singular homo-ironic aesthetic -- and reduces them to Podunk wink-wink camp and carping-harpy heroines. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Too much of Women In Trouble settles for banal instances of infidelity, female bonding, or psychoanalysis when it needs to keep the action going. It's fine to be inconsequential, as long as the charged-up frivolity never stops. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Women in Trouble has sleeper written all over it and a sequel is already in the works. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: This forced, charmless multi-character movie pretends to show women in all their glorious variety, but it really just traffics in the same old cliches. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: Unlikely accidents, shared secrets and zany twists combine to whip up a pleasing froth. Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: In the "whatever were they thinking of" genre, a new entry: Women in Trouble. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: This exuberantly uninhibited indie has the anything-goes spirit of something tossed off in a single burst of collaborative energy. Read more

Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: Women in Trouble awkwardly mixes blue material with sob stories. Read more