Film Review – Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

Here’s a film that assumes a great deal of its characters and situations
are interesting and, in some cases, deeply sympathetic. How wrong
“Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You” is. A conventional exploration
of a young, troubled soul living an affluent life in New York City, the
feature is disorganized and unpleasant, aching to reach some form of
emotional vulnerability, only to spotlight a story without severity,
lacking an abyssal sense of violation and soulful agony that typically
informs such angsty endeavors. It’s not exactly a trainwreck of a movie,
but “Someday This Pain” is so void of depth and meaning, it often
resembles a parody of the bruised teen subgenre. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com