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Women in Trouble
Metascore
43 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 9 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 9
  3. Negative: 3 out of 9
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  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    75
    Delivers plenty of smart dialogue and devises a number of excellent reasons to photograph his cast in situations that suggest the working title for the film might have been "Women in Underwear."
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: John DeFore
    70
    Gutierrez's script can't supply female characters as believable as Almodovar's, but in the director's chair he gives his cast room to compensate with funny, self-aware performances.
  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    70
    The sexual humor is often bawdy, and Gutierrez goes right up to the edge of camp.
  4. Variety
    Reviewed by: Joe Leydon
    70
    A wildly uneven but compulsively watchable mix of high camp and grand passions, soap opera and softcore sex. Very much in the deliriously lewd style of Pedro Almodovar.
  5. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Scott Tobias
    58
    What does it all mean? Nothing much greater than the sum of its seriocomic vignettes. To that end, Women In Trouble tends to sputter to life whenever the stories get racy.
  6. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Melissa Anderson
    40
    Awkwardly mixes blue material with sob stories.
  7. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    30
    The amateurish production values might be pardonable if the clichés -- the hard-core porn star with the soft heart, the therapist who needs to heal herself -- inside the poorly lighted, badly shot images weren't so absurd and often insulting.
  8. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Joe Neumaier
    20
    Writer-director Sebastian Gutierrez seems to think his characters are oh-so-edgy, and maybe they would be -- if it were 1982.
  9. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: David Fear
    20
    Even if Women in Trouble didn't keep bringing to mind a superior artist, the film would still be badly written (DOA tangents about cunnilingus and kink don't make dialogue edgy, only vulgar), not to mention unevenly paced and an embarrassment to all involved.
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