Trance is so in love with its dream-within-dream conceits it pays little attention to anything else. It pays little attention to detail, and you know how such things bother me.

| Sep 4, 2018

In the end, it's the unnecessary tricksiness of the film that halts its flow. A crucial human component is missing.

| Oct 3, 2017

It's not that I don't think Boyle knows, by the time things start to get really bananas in the second half, that his movie is silly. I'm jut not convinced that he ever decided how he felt about it.

| Jun 21, 2016

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.

| Jan 6, 2014

The muddled mental states of the characters (and that of the audience) are mirrored by the film's visual style, which oscillates between languorous dreamscapes and frenetic action sequences.

| Nov 4, 2013

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.

| Apr 12, 2013

A high-gloss throwback to Boyle's first movie, Shallow Grave.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 12, 2013

A cracking thriller built around art auctioneer James McAvoy' convenient amnesia, Danny Boyle's Trance jumps the rails in the closing stretch.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 12, 2013

By trying to be all things at once, Trance diffuses the potency of each of its disparate ambitions.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 12, 2013

The story draws us in even through the murk.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 12, 2013

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

| Original Score: B | Apr 12, 2013

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

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 12, 2013

[Boyle] leaves it to the audience to try to figure out just what's up, and what's going down, in this sleek psychological puzzler.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 11, 2013

It's an ingeniously built automaton, sexy as hell, and devoid of a heart.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 11, 2013

If you're going to champion style over substance, you'll want Danny Boyle providing the style.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 11, 2013

With "Trance," story becomes just another element in Boyle's commercial pop-Cubism, and the results are nearly fatal.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 11, 2013

For much of the film ... Boyle's innate flair as a dramatist and conjurer keeps one clamped to the armrests.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 11, 2013

An undeniably well-made thriller that works back in on itself a few too many times for disbelief to stay suspended but delivers enough escapist entertainment to be considered a success.

| Original Score: 3.5/5.0 | Apr 11, 2013

Danny Boyle seems to have had a blast making Trance. It's a pity he makes it so difficult to share in his joy.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 11, 2013

When we awaken from this "Trance," we wish we could have our amnesia back.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 11, 2013