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14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertTrouble in Mind is not a comedy, but it knows that it is funny.
- 100Time OutTime OutRudolph's script is both playful and precise, his images fantastic yet real, the music elegiac but ecstatically sung by an impassioned Marianne Faithfull. Part thriller, part comic fantasy, part love story, Trouble in Mind even offers an ambiguous, high-flown ending that suggests this really is the stuff that dreams are made of.
- 91The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinRudolph remains one of American’s film’s most unabashed romantics: Trouble In Mind is so sweetly, smartly, transcendently romantic that Kristofferson’s desperate need to get laid following years of nothing but male company comes off as a soulful man’s spiritual hunger for meaningful human connection, rather than mere horniness.
- 90Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrAlan Rudolph redreams the dream of film noir in this dense, beautifully executed, highly stylized romantic fantasy.
- 88Chicago TribuneGene SiskelChicago TribuneGene SiskelRegardless of your interest in the technical side of filmmaking, however, if your taste runs slightly to the dark side, you'll have a very good time with "Trouble in Mind." [21 March 1986, p.AN]
- 80Los Angeles TimesSheila BensonLos Angeles TimesSheila BensonOne of “Trouble’s” nicest gifts is a pair of lovers to sigh over, whose future you agonize about, lovers who can make each other roar with laughter while lovingly intertwined. How long since we cared anything about a couple on the screen?
- 80The GuardianThe GuardianSome may think it precious, but it's the haunting, poetic product of an original imagination.
- 50TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineTROUBLE IN MIND is offbeat, unique, and interesting, and for that alone it should be noted. It is a shame that none of the elements ever come together, so this film winds up being a beautiful, atmospheric mess.
- 40The New York TimesWalter GoodmanThe New York TimesWalter GoodmanAlan Rudolph's latest movie seems to be striving to say something but isn't able to break through the fog of his script.
- 40The New YorkerPauline KaelThe New YorkerPauline KaelThe picture is a pile of poetic mush set in some doom-laden, vaguely universal city of the past and/or the future.