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The Girl Is in Trouble

No Rules. No Fear. Just Revenge.

2015 · 1h 30m · N/A Crime
Directed by Julius Onah

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Overview

A Lower East Side bartender becomes entangled in a murder mystery involving a desperate woman, a missing drug dealer and the scion of a powerful investment firm.

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57%
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Rotten

Onah - whose movie began life as his thesis project at New York University - seems more keen on showing how the tensions of immigration and gentrification have shaped the Lower East Side than on fashioning a credible thriller.

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Rotten

A textbook noir premise gets an overamped and undercompelling treatment ...

Ben Kenigsberg, Variety
Rotten

The story has plenty of possibilities, though Onah rarely manages to put his own stamp on things.

Keith Uhlich, AV Club
Fresh

Ultimately, it's not so much the story - centered around a coke-fueled murder - that compels as Onah's familiarity with his setting. He's got a great feel for the vibrancy of downtown and the diversity of its population.

Sara Stewart, New York Post
Fresh

The film's visually arresting, but it's the performances that hold it all together - Short, Wilmer Valderrama, Jesse Spencer, Paz de la Huerta, Miriam Colon, and Mike Starr, with Bachleda being the real glue.

Ernest Hardy, Village Voice

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