The Girl Is In Trouble
August, a failed Lower East Side DJ struggling to keep his life together becomes entangled in a murder mystery involving Signe, a desperate woman, Jesus, a missing drug dealer, and Nicholas, the scion of a powerful investment firm.
18 May 1973, Ponce, Puerto Rico
28 July 1982, Howell, New Jersey, USA
31 October 1976, Colombo, Sri Lanka
12 May 1983, Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico
20 August 1936, Ponce, Puerto Rico
30 January 1980, Miami, Florida, USA
April 16, 2015
A well-executed crime drama that, on a narrative level, finds itself too bogged down in the familiar to achieve genuine lift-off -- let alone anything memorable.
April 09, 2015
This predictable whodunit proves a tad too transparent.
April 02, 2015
A textbook noir premise gets an overamped and undercompelling treatment ...
April 02, 2015
Though the film gets more banal as it reaches its climax-most viewers will have seen it all before-Onah creates refreshing space around these familiar stories and themes.
April 01, 2015
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.
April 02, 2015
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.
March 31, 2015
The film's visually arresting, but it's the performances that hold it all together - Short, Wilmer Valderrama, Jesse Spencer, Paz de la Huerta, Míriam Colón, and Mike Starr, with Bachleda being the real glue.
April 02, 2015
The story has plenty of possibilities, though Onah rarely manages to put his own stamp on things.
April 10, 2015
Columbus Short and Alicja Bachleda are actually fun to watch in this lighthearted femme fatale wannabe film noir.
March 31, 2015
holds the viewer's attention and keeps him anxious to work out the mystery.
April 03, 2015
Onah doesn't quite stick the landing narratively, although he has such filmmaking energy that his work here merits comparison to that of the film's executive producer, Spike Lee.
April 03, 2015
You've seen it all before, way better done.
