| 88 |
New York Daily News
Funny and masterfully inventive.
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| 80 |
Dallas Observer
What it lacks in story, it makes up for with sharp dialogue and an amusing Walter Mitty-esque style.
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| 75 |
Miami Herald
Its lingering hangover, however, is decidedly pleasant.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
This British film also mocks the rave culture it celebrates, and it's charming in a way that is hip but surprisingly down to earth.
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| 75 |
Chicago Tribune
Marc Caro
You may not want to join in their activities but you're happy to have tagged along.
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| 75 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Fast, funny.
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| 70 |
The New York Times
Mostly it's exhilarating.
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| 70 |
Village Voice
Sweet, ribald, and even inspired in an off-the-cuff way.
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| 60 |
Film.com
Like memories of your latest high, it's all briefly amusing, mildly embarrassing, and - ultimately -- completely forgettable.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
Brimming with fun and a few great ideas, it's little more than a foggy memory the minute it's over.
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| 60 |
Variety
Well cast, engagingly played and directed with a stylistic pedal to the metal, Human Traffic is a lot of energy adding up to very little.
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| 50 |
Film.com
Stripped of the pretension of the overrated "Trainspotting," but it's also void of the earlier film's ambition or glimmers of real cultural insight.
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| 50 |
Boston Globe
'Trainspotting'' Lite.
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| 50 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A bubbly, high-spirited paean to the joys of pharmaceutical phun that grooves to a throbbing beat but constantly trips over flat, prosaic dialogue and literal, lifeless sight gags.
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| 50 |
New York Post
Though it contains some very funny, cleverly written comic sketches, Human Traffic shares with other drug movies the problem that watching other people on drugs is not interesting.
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| 50 |
Entertainment Weekly
The movie is too cute to lose its head in the music. It never generates its own ecstasy.
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| 50 |
Austin Chronicle
It's a 24-hour-party-people travelogue, entertaining enough to grab your eyes... but less memorable than it may at first appear.
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| 50 |
Washington Post
Alona Wartofsky
Wildly uneven--inventive and clever moments are interspersed with dull and predictable ones.
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| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
They are, in fact, likable. That's why their comedy is so sad.
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| 40 |
Los Angeles Times
There's an underlying emptiness to Human Traffic and it's difficult to say for sure whether Kerrigan fully acknowledges it.
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| 40 |
LA Weekly
Steven Mikulan
Turns into a driving soundtrack accompanied by a film.
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| 38 |
USA Today
Someone has seen "Trainspotting" too many times, and it's writer/director Justin Kerrigan.
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| 35 |
Mr. Showbiz
So desperate to be rebellious and cool, that it's impossible to see it as anything more than one big case of "been there, done that" -- even if your drugs have already kicked in.
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| 20 |
Washington Post
I'd rather sit in bumper-to-bumper hell on I-495 for two hours than get caught in Traffic again.
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