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42 out of 100

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5.2 out of 10

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  • Starring: Kevin Kline, Paulina Gaitan
  • Summary: When 13-year-old Adriana is kidnapped by sex traffickers in Mexico City, her 17-year-old brother, Jorge, sets off on a desperate mission to save her. Adriana is trapped by an underground network of international thugs who earn millions exploiting their human cargo, and her only friend throughout the ordeal is Veronica, a young Polish woman captured by the same criminal gang. As Jorge dodges overwhelming obstacles to track the girl's abductors, he meets Ray, a Texas cop whose own loss of family leads him to become an ally. From the barrios of Mexico City and the treacherous Rio Grande border, to a secret Internet sex-slave auction and a tense confrontation at a stash house in suburban New Jersey, Ray and Jorge forge a close bond as they frantically try to catch up with Adriana's kidnappers before she is sold and disappears into a brutal underworld from which few victims ever return. Inspired by "The Girls Next Door," Peter Landesman's chilling New York Times Magazine story on the U.S. sex trade, Trade exposes one of the world's most heinous crimes. (Roadside Attractions)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 22
  3. Negative: 9 out of 22
  1. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
    75
    Trade unflinchingly sheds light on a heinous crime. Yes, it's tough to sit through. But don't let that keep you away.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    60
    An eagerly prurient dip into the sex-trafficking trough, Trade teeters between earnest exposé and salacious melodrama. Minus the film’s near-visible weight of conscience, success in the second category would have been virtually guaranteed.
  3. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    38
    Human trafficking is an awful societal issue, and Trade happens to be an awful movie about human trafficking.
  4. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: M. E. Russell
    33
    You end up with a movie that takes that real problem and makes it feel like an exploitation contrivance.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 7
  3. Negative: 3 out of 7
  1. OA
    10
    This is the best picture of the year, no country was great but this film will bring tears to your eyes, its real, unflinching and captivating.
  2. ElmerR
    9
    Is a good movie, and shows the differences between cultures. Many of the "experts" rate this low cuz they dont like that a mexican calls them stupid and ignorant. But if you watch this film with a little open mind, you will find a movie not so far from the reality.… Expand
  3. ChadS.
    5
    Don't let a man do a woman's job. The sex trafficking of minors is a story that should be unrelentingly grim (like Lukas Moodyson's "Lilya-4-Ever"); a female screenwriter knows this. "Trade" stares at the sordid world of child exploitation, and flinches. Rather than be at the front and center of the viewer's attention, the story of two underaged girls(one Polish, one Mexican) being transported to New Jersey for auction, inexplicably, is sometimes used to frame the curiously cheerful auxiliary story of two boys(one American, one Mexican) pursuing the kidnappers. "Trade" is a road movie about the sex trafficking of minors. Sometimes Jorge(Cesar Ramos) remembers that Adriana(Paulina Gaitan) is, in all likelihood, going to be raped; sometimes he forgets; or rather, the movie forgets. The cultural differences between Ray(Kevin Kline) and Jorge(he doesn't like Ray's classical music) that "Trade" insists on exploring is inappropriate to say the least. In one scene, the younger charge gets to drive...and have control over the music. If "Trade" was written by a woman, Veronica(Alicja Bachleda-Curus) wouldn't exit "Trade" in spectacular "Thelma & Louise"-like fashion. As much as the Polish girl loves her baby boy, it's unlikely that she'd abandon Adriana(Paulina Gaitan), a younger girl, to fend off their two kidnappers on her own. "Trade" is too entertaining, and too easy to watch.… Expand
  4. DanS.
    0
    So bad it is painful.

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