50
Metascore
16 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83The PlaylistNoel MurrayThe PlaylistNoel MurrayWhile it’s tricky to pin down exactly what Trespass Against Us means to be, it’s easy to enjoy what it actually is.
- 80Screen DailyAllan HunterScreen DailyAllan HunterDynamic storytelling and powerful performances bring out the pathos in an unusual tale of conflicting loyalties set on the criminal edges of a travelling community.
- 67IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichIt’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.
- 60Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangLos Angeles TimesJustin ChangSmith 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.
- 58The Film StageChristopher SchobertThe Film StageChristopher SchobertIt’s a so-so affair offering momentary pleasures.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeInstead 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.
- 50The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThough thematically vague, thinly plotted and without a reliably sympathetic soul to cling to, the movie has a mutinous energy and an absurd, knockabout charm.
- 40The GuardianJordan HoffmanThe GuardianJordan HoffmanEverything 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.
- 20VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanIt’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.”