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Trouble Every Day
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36 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 15 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 15
  3. Negative: 6 out of 15
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  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    75
    If you have an appetite for audacious, one-of-a-kind filmmaking, this one's for you. Just don't say you weren't warned.
  2. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    70
    A haunting and terrifying film. It's also a film of wonderful spaces and silences.
  3. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Chris Fujiwara
    63
    A success in some sense, but it's hard to like a film so cold and dead.
  4. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    50
    Denis's pungent images create a nightmarish mood but don't bring full artistic coherence to her odd mix of gothic horror and postmodern reverie.
  5. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    50
    The extremely intimate violence is more explicit than is the mainstream norm, and Dalle's mouth is the stuff of nightmares.
  6. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Michael Dequina
    50
    As palpable as the atmosphere is, had the film boasted a clearer, more memorable story and performances that were a step above adequate, the creepiness wouldn't have simply lingered with the viewer, it would have gotten under their skin.
  7. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marjorie Baumgarten
    50
    Something haunting is going on here, but it's as difficult for the viewers as it is for the characters to sink their teeth into anything truly satisfying.
  8. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    40
    A taut mess -- beautiful, gory, tedious and puzzling.
  9. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    40
    Highly problematical. The trouble with "Trouble" is one of temperament. Denis' formality and seriousness make the horror genre a risky business for her, especially when sex is combined with outrageous gore.
  10. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    33
    A demented, orgiastically gory vampire/sex parable.
  11. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    30
    Ultimately seems naïve. In developing the comparison of sex and cannibalism, it never goes beyond the standard Draculian symbol of blood to include other bodily substances.
  12. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    25
    Insipid, self-indulgent bit of art-house macabre.
  13. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    25
    Maybe there's a metaphor here, but figuring it out wouldn't make Trouble Every Day any better.
  14. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: J. Hoberman
    20
    This modern-day vampire story is purposefully shocking in its eroticized gore, if unintentionally dull in its lack of poetic frissons.
  15. Variety
    Reviewed by: Derek Elley
    20
    Over-long, under-written and needlessly obscure instead of genuinely atmospheric.
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8.0 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 3
  3. Negative: 0 out of 3
  1. JamesM
    10
    Perfection, in every single way, but I just can't explain why. It contains one scene of absolutely carnage, and another which left me very, very unsettled, both of which were very disturbing and gory, but somehow they contributed to the bigger picture, lifting a moody, spectacularly structured film into a higher realm. The result is a bloody, brilliant, bold and overwhelming experience. The critics know nothing - this is one of the greats.… Full Review »
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