While the caper plot has its moments, I kept hoping "Trash" would do more than treat its setting as some curiously unexplainable foreign planet.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 9, 2015

A diverting two hours, and an excellent reminder of the wide world of stories out there waiting to be told.

| Original Score: B | Oct 9, 2015

An intensive, propulsive political thriller representing a tautly executed return to form for director Stephen Daldry.

| Oct 9, 2015

I left the screening having almost fainted from sugar shock.

| Oct 8, 2015

Trash gets hung up on the "teaching" part-looking to inform the well-off about the struggles of Rio slum-dwellers-and for too long forgets that Mulligan's novel provided a pretty good plot.

| Original Score: C | Oct 8, 2015

Comparisons to "Slumdog Millionaire" are inevitable, but the kinetic "Trash" has a rhythm all its own.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 7, 2015

Director Stephen Daldry, working from an exploitative script by Richard Curtis, opts for a full-on Slumdog Millionaire imitation.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Oct 4, 2015

It's not surprising that Trash is a shameless crowd-pleaser, and that, like many films of its type, it has a contradiction at its heart.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 30, 2015

Director Stephen Daldry rediscovers the upbeat oomph that powered his debut feature Billy Elliot, finding hope and humour amid the squalor and violence of the narrative's darker turns.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 1, 2015

A jaunty, gorgeously-acted thriller about three teens from the slums of Rio, who - when one of them finds a wallet in a pile of garbage - become entangled in the affairs of a corrupt mayoral candidate.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 30, 2015

Trash is an honourable addition to the list of films about Brazilian street kids that stretches back to Hctor Babenco's Pixote and Walter Salles's Central Station.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 29, 2015

As to the implausibly happy 'feelgood' ending, maybe I was too harsh, and it's quite sweet really? No. It's properly rubbish. Won't even think about trying to be kind again. It just doesn't suit.

| Jan 29, 2015

There's a driving energy to the film-making and three central performances, from non-professional actors Rickson Tevez, Gabriel Weinstein and Eduardo Luis, are first rate.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 29, 2015

A possible worry is that Trash is too adult for a family audience, and yet not a fully adult thriller, but it is a watchable adventure.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 29, 2015

Another winner from Daldry, this is an unexpectedly gritty crime drama set in the teeming favelas and grimy backstreets of Rio.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 29, 2015

Stephen Daldry tries his hand at a realist fairy tale set in the slums of Rio, with mixed results.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 29, 2015

It feels impossibly compromised, even for a film whose basic pitch is Slumdog Millionaire goes to Rio.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 29, 2015

Forget about three years at Rada - these boys are the real deal.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 26, 2015

With its heavy plotting, Trash hardly aspires to docudrama, yet the trio paint an indelible portrait of youth in crisis that is essential to the movie's success.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 20, 2014

There's no doubting a certain passion among crew and cast, most notably the trio of native youngsters whose antics provide a solid level of action-packed dramedy.

| Oct 19, 2014