Bruce McDonald's adaptation of Maureen Medved's stream-of-consciousness teen novel The Tracey Fragments turns the screen into an ever-shifting mosaic, with anywhere from two to 20 separate images appearing at the same time.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 11, 2020

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 24, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

To criticize a film called The Tracey Fragments for being too fragmented may sound a bit on-the-nose, but this experimental drama from Canadian director Bruce McDonald is interesting for a while and then goes to pieces.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 13, 2008

I hated this movie. I really did.

Full Review | May 19, 2008

This audacious puzzlement is worth seeing, I guess, for some startling and innovative visual designs. But it doesn't amount to anything more substantial than a technical tour de force.

| May 14, 2008

Viewed as the sum of its sad incidents, The Tracey Fragments seems like the kind of adolescent melodrama that has become a staple of young-adult literature.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 9, 2008

I have a feeling that this is the last time we'll see a down-and-dirty Ellen Page.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 9, 2008

The Tracey Fragments is a grating stunt that plays like a film-school project, cutting a bland story into a million tiny irritating pieces.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 9, 2008

This angsty Canadian movie directed by Bruce McDonald takes its title all too literally: Every sequence is splintered into multiple split screens, which means that you can follow the dreary, semi-incomprehensible action from many viewpoints at once.

| Original Score: C- | May 9, 2008

Director Bruce McDonald splits his screen eight ways to Sunday in The Tracey Fragments, a splintered form ostensibly intended to match the psyche of his protagonist.

| May 8, 2008

Unlike the frustrating gimmickry of Mike Figgis's Timecode and Hotel, McDonald's bedazzling multi-frame experiment poeticizes and enhances an otherwise slender story (forgivable at only 77 minutes long)...

| May 7, 2008

Ellen Page remains one of the few stellar newcomers who deserves to be seen in anything she chooses to do.

Full Review | May 7, 2008

This is a tough watch, but a rewarding one for those open to experimentation.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 2, 2007

By the time The Tracey Fragments fills in its last dark fragments, they don't have the emotional impact they probably should have.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 2, 2007