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With an exploitative style that seems more suited for TV shows like CSI, Trade's message about the reality of child exploitation is easily lost.
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As cinema, 'Trade' is flawed: the script is functional and the dry characters are hemmed in by the machinations of an unremarkable plot. Dec 12, 2008 | Rating: 3/6 | Full Review…
As cinema, 'Trade' is flawed: the script is functional and the dry characters are hemmed in by the machinations of an unremarkable plot.
Tom Huddlestone
This cockeyed odd-couple road movie is well-intentioned, but it comes perilously close to feeding off the crimes it condemns. Dec 12, 2008 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
This cockeyed odd-couple road movie is well-intentioned, but it comes perilously close to feeding off the crimes it condemns.
James Christopher
Is it possible to agree with what a film is saying while disliking the way it says it? Trade leaves no arm untwisted and no message unrammed. Dec 12, 2008 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Is it possible to agree with what a film is saying while disliking the way it says it? Trade leaves no arm untwisted and no message unrammed.
Xan Brooks
Jose Rivera's script plays uneasily, as do some of the directorial flourishes: the shots of rose stems and caged birds are galumphingly emphatic at moments that need no underlining. Dec 12, 2008 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Jose Rivera's script plays uneasily, as do some of the directorial flourishes: the shots of rose stems and caged birds are galumphingly emphatic at moments that need no underlining.
A documentary about sex trafficking might have been more powerful. Dramatizing the subject in this fashion, with a race-against-time road trip, breathless online bidding and a couple of different happy endings, simply cheapens it. Dec 3, 2007
A documentary about sex trafficking might have been more powerful. Dramatizing the subject in this fashion, with a race-against-time road trip, breathless online bidding and a couple of different happy endings, simply cheapens it.
Christy Lemire
The filmmaker tries to keep the energy up and the audience engaged by incorporating stylistic touches from the Michael Bay 101 crib sheet, whirling the camera around characters in crisis and lacing scenes with hack guitar rock. Oct 5, 2007
The filmmaker tries to keep the energy up and the audience engaged by incorporating stylistic touches from the Michael Bay 101 crib sheet, whirling the camera around characters in crisis and lacing scenes with hack guitar rock.
Lisa Rose
Intense, gritty, substantive, compelling, humanizing. Trade begs for Oscar acknowledgment and yours. Nov 8, 2019 | Full Review…
Intense, gritty, substantive, compelling, humanizing. Trade begs for Oscar acknowledgment and yours.
Debbie Lynn Elias
A brutal, shattering story of child trafficking that is intended to deliver a sobering punch about the global human trafficking trade, Marco Kreutzpaintner's powerful drama is in fact based on investigative reports in the New York Times. Jul 29, 2009 | Full Review…
A brutal, shattering story of child trafficking that is intended to deliver a sobering punch about the global human trafficking trade, Marco Kreutzpaintner's powerful drama is in fact based on investigative reports in the New York Times.
Andrew L. Urban
Heartfelt and fitfully suspenseful, it's grim, message-led stuff. Dec 12, 2008 | Rating: 3/5
Heartfelt and fitfully suspenseful, it's grim, message-led stuff.
Anna Smith
If only the whole matched the power and potency of the details. Masquerades as a searing exposé, but turns out to be a lurid and overwrought account. Dec 12, 2008 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
If only the whole matched the power and potency of the details. Masquerades as a searing exposé, but turns out to be a lurid and overwrought account.
Ian Freer
Such difficult subject matter requires a harder-edged delivery, but hopefully this accessible drama will therefore get its message across to a wider audience. Dec 12, 2008 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Such difficult subject matter requires a harder-edged delivery, but hopefully this accessible drama will therefore get its message across to a wider audience.
Jim Hall
Kline and the talented Gaitan do their best to engage on a human level, but ending with various sobering stats about the global sex trade only underlines the film's woefully misplaced dramatic emphasis. Dec 12, 2008 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Kline and the talented Gaitan do their best to engage on a human level, but ending with various sobering stats about the global sex trade only underlines the film's woefully misplaced dramatic emphasis.
Elliott Noble
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