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Trance

Don't be a hero.

2013 · 1h 41m · R Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by Danny Boyle

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Overview

A violent gang enlists the help of a hypnotherapist in an attempt to locate a painting which somehow vanished in the middle of a heist.

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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes

Top critics, in their words

All reviews
68%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Trance is high-order, film noir nonsense that takes Boyle back to the thrillers he made at the start of his career with John Hodge (he wrote Trance, too), like Shallow Grave and Trainspotting, that were preoccupied with the grimy corners of the psyche.

Wesley Morris, Grantland
Fresh

Trance 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.

Christopher Orr, The Atlantic
Fresh

The story draws us in even through the murk.

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Fresh

Dawson walks through this film with majestic confidence while McAvoy is constantly inches from a full breakdown. And Boyle keeps that tension mesmerizing.

Tom Long, Detroit News
Rotten

I came away wondering whether the headache I left the theater with was such a bad -- or even unintentional -- thing after all.

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

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