58
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.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
80
Screen International by Allan Hunter
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.
58
The Film Stage by Christopher Schobert
It’s a so-so affair offering momentary pleasures.
67
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.
50
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
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.
50
The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
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.
40
The Guardian by Jordan Hoffman
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.
60
Los Angeles Times by Justin Chang
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.
83
While it’s tricky to pin down exactly what Trespass Against Us means to be, it’s easy to enjoy what it actually is.
20
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.”