Trance Reviews
TheMovieReport.com
The unpredictable journey through fluid and malleable concepts of reality and identity is consistently gripping.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Houston Press
Trance isn't the director's best by a long shot, but it's a perfectly serviceable thriller with all Boyle's trademark flourishes.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
CinemaDope
... a flashy time-killer, a hodgepodge of trompe l'oeil ruses that add up to your standard noir mystery, only tricked-out in the latest in digital effects.
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| Original Score: 2.5/3
Bloomberg News
Trance is a busy, glittering picture, but you never have much of a stake in the outlandish twists (unless you happen to take hypnotism very seriously).
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| Original Score: 3/5
Creative Loafing
Like any good thriller worth its weight in red herrings, Trance keeps the audience guessing for the vast majority of its running time.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
A beguilingly brilliant cinematic puzzle.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
(Rosario) Dawson, in a performance worthy of an Academy Award nomination, reveals Lamb to be a wily fox able to outwit the stronger prey that surrounds her.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
SSG Syndicate
Trippy, intriguing, and enigmatic - it's a surreal, clever, ambiguous brain-teaser that will keep you thinking long after the lights go up.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Top CriticTrance is to Danny Boyle more or less as Side Effects was to Steven Soderbergh: an arty spin on a trashy B-movie, engineered to showcase the director's particular gifts.
WaffleMovies.com
The most mind-boggling movie since Inception, in a good way.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Tulsa World
Deliciously twisty, until it has too many twists.
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| Original Score: 3/4
TV Guide's Movie Guide
While we may not be able to trust any of the characters in Trance, we can certainly count on the filmmakers to deliver a story that holds us transfixed from start to finish.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Fresno Bee
The writing is crisp and the acting on target.
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| Original Score: B
Las Vegas Informer
Convoluted and deliciously twisty but worth even a second viewing. I've been placed under hypnosis and it's not like this at all. Why isn't Vincent Cassel a huge star in the U.S.?
Oregonian
This is a stylish enough, mind-bending thriller, a cocktail of "Inception," "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," and "The Thomas Crown Affair" (the remake).
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| Original Score: B
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Danny Boyle injects every minute of Trance's plot-tangled running time with frenetic energy and style, cleverly distracting us from an implausible story that never plays fair with its twists.
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| Original Score: B-
Movie Chambers
This isn't your classic film noir, but director Danny Boyle has put an interesting spin on the genre with "Trance."
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| Original Score: B
Boston Herald
Is there anything Boyle can't do?
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| Original Score: B plus
ScreenCrush
A high-gloss throwback to Boyle's first movie, Shallow Grave.
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| Original Score: 7/10
Kaplan vs. Kaplan
An action-packed juggernaut with more twists and turns than one can, or should, expect. "Trance" is the kind of thriller I live for.
