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