Gutierrez's story is structurally clichd ... but, worse still, his characters are uniformly unbelievable and two-dimensional.

| Original Score: D | Apr 22, 2011

It's not pornography, but it evokes that same uneasy feeling that you're watching something that's so wrong but so right at the same time.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 12, 2010

In the "whatever were they thinking of" genre, a new entry: Women in Trouble.

| Dec 10, 2009

This forced, charmless multi-character movie pretends to show women in all their glorious variety, but it really just traffics in the same old cliches.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 13, 2009

Mr. Gutierrez, as suggested by all the dcolletage, appears to be a breast man. Too bad he didn't set his sights higher.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 13, 2009

It's a film with undeniably gorgeous parts that never quite develops into a sum.

| Nov 13, 2009

Unlikely accidents, shared secrets and zany twists combine to whip up a pleasing froth.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 13, 2009

Too much of Women In Trouble settles for banal instances of infidelity, female bonding, or psychoanalysis when it needs to keep the action going. It's fine to be inconsequential, as long as the charged-up frivolity never stops.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 12, 2009

The attractive cast, notably the earthy Gugino, tries hard to invest the one-note characters with a degree of humanity, but are betrayed at every turn by the thin material.

Full Review | Nov 11, 2009

The film borrows beaucoup Almodvarisms -- multilayered hysterical heroines, a singular homo-ironic aesthetic -- and reduces them to Podunk wink-wink camp and carping-harpy heroines.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 11, 2009

Women in Trouble awkwardly mixes blue material with sob stories.

| Nov 10, 2009

At a particularly rundown corner of Almodvar Boulevard and Tarantino Lane, you'll find Women in Trouble, a limp, forgettable collection of interlocking tales all centering on the eponymous narrative setup.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 10, 2009

This exuberantly uninhibited indie has the anything-goes spirit of something tossed off in a single burst of collaborative energy.

Full Review | Mar 31, 2009

Gutierrez's script can't supply female characters as believable as Almodovar's, but in the director's chair he gives his cast room to compensate with funny, self-aware performances.

Full Review | Mar 18, 2009