The Playlist by Noel Murray

While it’s tricky to pin down exactly what Trespass Against Us means to be, it’s easy to enjoy what it actually is.

Screen Daily 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.

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.

Time Out London by Dave Calhoun

It’s a teasing celebration of outsiderdom without being a full-on endorsement

Chicago Sun-Times by Richard Roeper

Director Adam Smith (shooting Alastair Siddons’ inventive script) doesn’t hit the mark with every chance he takes, but for the most part this is an admirable and successful effort.

IndieWire by David Ehrlich

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.

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.

Total Film by James Mottram

There’s Fassbender’s charisma, an unhinged Sean Harris and Tom Rowland music.

The A.V. Club by A.A. Dowd

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.

The Film Stage by Christopher Schobert

It’s a so-so affair offering momentary pleasures.

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.

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.

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.

Variety by Owen Gleiberman

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.”