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The Trouble with Bliss
2012
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The Trouble with Bliss
Positive Reviews
6
Negative reviews
6
Average Rating
2.5
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2.8
The film aims to present a mosaic of crazy New York life, but instead seems more like a shaggy dog story being spun out by an easily distracted barfly ..
Av Club
3.8
He wants to travel, but doesnt have any money, as hes currently unemployed.
We Got This Covered
3.1
Which isnt to say that we dont form a relationship with these creatures.
1.0
Knowles and Light indulge in so many indie clichs, their movie could be used as a film school case study.
Ny Daily News
1.5
Even when circumstances and supporting turns slide into quirk and farce, Hall never angles for an easy laugh.
Village Voice
1.3
Striving mightily to be the indie equivalent of a wacky sitcom, The Trouble With Bliss fails to draw much humor from farcical situations.
New York Post
4.5
Indie pap, populated by determinedly eccentric characters you dont give a toss about.
Film Journal International ..
2.5
Hall does what he can, but Michael Knowles film does such a thorough job portraying the ennui and aimlessness gripping its protagonist that the feelin ..
Az Central
3.5
That slight subversion isnt enough to make the stock characters any less tired here, and its symptomatic of the winking attempts at cleverness that pl ..
Npr
1.5
Less than the comic sum of its sardonic parts The Trouble With Bliss is a triviality.
Coles Mithey
2.0
Halls puppy dog charisma holds up under the strain, but it isnt nearly enough to keep this messy midlife crisis dramedy afloat.
New York Time Out
4.0
Packs a lot of Lower East Side quirkiness into 97 minutes. Maybe too much.
Monsters And Critics
1.5
Seeing the air between actors when a fake punch thrown doesnt help matters.)
Moveable Fest
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