Even if it's a mite clunky, Trust does a decent job and avoids the regulation happy ending.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 8, 2011

The whole section of the plot dealing with Will's shame and rage at failing to protect his child is hammily and unconvincingly acted.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 7, 2011

Liana Liberato is superb as the girl sinking by slow degrees into the "trust" of the title.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 7, 2011

Committed performances and a masterful first act bolster this structurally flawed handling of an impossibly tricky subject.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 7, 2011

Schwimmer, for all his film's limitations, deserves a lot of credit for finding a gifted actress the same age as his central character, and sculpting Liberato's blazing, wounded, needy and all-round award-level performance into the gem it is.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 7, 2011

An exercise in sober drama and a middle-class cautionary tale which explores a family ripped up by the roots after the rape of a 14-year-old girl.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 6, 2011

A strong, compelling and disturbing story that struggles to reach a decent ending.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 4, 2011

Audiences most definitely will squirm and wish they were anywhere but in the theater, despite the fact that it features some of Clive Owen's best work and a startling movie debut by the 15-year-old Liana Liberato.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 21, 2011

What Trust conveys, at its best, is that ultimately parental protections are not foolproof, and that is the greatest horror of all.

| Original Score: B | Apr 8, 2011

Schwimmer directs this smarmy Hot Topic drama with empathy for the craft of acting but less interest in the craft of making a movie move.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 6, 2011

Characters are less characters than placards in a revved-up PSA about the Gen Y horrors of teen rape.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Apr 4, 2011

Prurient, ham-handed and amateurish.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 1, 2011

I must admit [Schwimmer's] done a solid job with this queasy drama.

| Apr 1, 2011

The script is blaring and obvious at all times, and in his second directorial effort, David Schwimmer doesn't have a clue how dull it is for the audience to endure scene after scene of anguish, crying and screaming matches.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 1, 2011

There is no denying that Schwimmer knows something about getting a performance out of an actor. Liberato, who is 15 now, is flat-out terrific.

| Apr 1, 2011

The mantle of social relevance can be a heavy one, but "Trust," a smooth drama about a girl's seduction and rape by a middle-aged Internet predator, is neither preachy nor hysterically overreaching.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 31, 2011

Unfortunately, this well-acted cautionary tale is hampered by a lack of visual finesse and a script (by Andy Bellin and Robert Festinger) in need of a narrative rethink and a dialogue polish.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 31, 2011

The claustrophobic film offers a strange anti-catharsis; it's all tension and frustration with no crowd-pleasing release.

| Original Score: C | Mar 31, 2011

It's easy to imagine how this story could have been exploited and dumbed down. It works instead with intelligence and sympathy.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 31, 2011

He's adept with actors, but Schwimmer has yet to locate his strengths behind the camera.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 31, 2011