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22 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75USA TodayClaudia PuigUSA TodayClaudia PuigTrade unflinchingly sheds light on a heinous crime. Yes, it's tough to sit through. But don't let that keep you away.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanAs a movie, Trade is so-so, but as an exposé of how the new globalized industry of sex trafficking really works, it's a disquieting, eye-opening bulletin.
- 63TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThe story's incredible coincidences, lazy cynicism and easy ironies recast a real-life horror story as easy-to-dismiss melodrama, complete with sequential "happy" endings.
- 50ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliWith a movie of this sort, the viewer expects to undergo something grueling and disturbing. Trade's inability to deliver that sort of visceral experience makes it unworthy of anyone's hard-earned dollars.
- 42The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinTrade is a pulpy Hollywood-style melodrama disguised as a harrowing message movie about Important Social Issues. It labors under the delusion that it's this year's revelatory, eye-opening Maria Full Of Grace, when it's little more than a B-movie with an overwrought conscience.
- 38Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisHuman trafficking is an awful societal issue, and Trade happens to be an awful movie about human trafficking.
- 30VarietyRobert KoehlerVarietyRobert KoehlerLittle more than a slipshod, trashy, sometimes exploitative thriller.
- 30Village VoiceVillage VoiceIt's pure exploitation--the kind of movie after which you need a long, hot shower. German director Marco Kreuzpaintner's movie looks like "Traffic" and "Syriana"--clearly his role models--but is little more than our generation's version of 1979's "Hardcore."
- 30The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterTrade is an earnest attempt to dramatize the network of Internet sex "tunnels." Unfortunately, the film's horrific and important subject matter is distilled into a lackluster lump of generic buddy-movie/road-picture components.
- 25Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAnything that holds our interest can be entertaining, in a way, but the movie seems to have an unwholesome determination to show us the victims being terrified and threatened. When I left the screening, I just didn't feel right.