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Crash

Crash (1996)

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36

Average Rating: 5.6/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 7

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61

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Average Rating: 3.2/5
User Ratings: 55,299

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Movie Info

After surviving a brutal car wreck, commercial director James Ballard finds himself slowly drawn to a mysterious subculture of people who have transformed automobile accidents into erotic events. Like the J.G. Ballard novel that inspired it, David Cronenberg's study of the sexual dimension of man's relationship to technology was a magnet for controversy, drawing a NC-17 rating and criticism from several sources, including studio owner Ted Turner, who attempted to prevent the film's American

NC-17,

Mystery & Suspense, Drama

David Cronenberg

Nov 17, 1998

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All Critics (50) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (29) | Rotten (22) | DVD (4)

For a movie obsessed with the connection between sexual intercourse and car accidents, David Cronenberg's Crash could hardly be more stationary.

April 4, 2011 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
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While the director remains firmly behind the wheel for the first hour or so, he cracks up toward the end with sequences that send the film and the audience into a ditch.

September 9, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety
Variety
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It's a dark, disturbing, languorous movie, as ludicrous, hermetic and repetitive, perhaps, as Ballard's original, but admirably assured and true to itself.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
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Mr. Cronenberg, for once oddly inhibited by brazen subject matter, has made a meticulously stylized and controlled film that leaves many of its characters' ideas muffled and lacks the true audacity its material demands.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times
New York Times
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"Crash" doesn't extend beyond its most immediate sensationalism. When the movie does attempt to find a theme, it slams into a brick wall of mumbo-jumbo.

January 22, 2002 Full Review Source: Washington Post
Washington Post
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So far from being involving or compelling, so intentionally disconnected from any kind of recognizable emotion, that by comparison David Lynch's removed "Lost Highway" plays like "Lassie Come Home."

February 14, 2001 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
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[A] necessarily disturbing and equally profound inquiry into human desire, however self-destructive.

November 12, 2012 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine

With Crash, David Cronenberg drives mainstream cinema over the edge.

September 1, 2009 Full Review Source: City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul

Crash is a mutant work of art -- a bracing splash of ice water.

July 30, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
eFilmCritic.com

Wildly unwatchable, as if someone had made Andy Warhol's Frankenstein without being in on the joke.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: F5 (Wichita, KS)

It's the cold survival logic of Darwin, where libertarians leave their past behind as if it were dead.

July 5, 2005 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine

A stylish, intriguing and typically warped vision that hybridises the imaginations of Ballard and Cronenberg.

October 29, 2003 Full Review Source: Film4
Film4

In that re-identification of "otherness," he betrays his awe of humanity.

March 9, 2003 Full Review Source: Film Freak Central
Film Freak Central

One of the most uncomfortable movies I've ever seen.

February 5, 2003 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Crash is a violently rare exception to the continually careful stride of film, and few films have been made with such a conviction to such inherently controversial material.

November 5, 2002 Full Review Source: Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Not Coming to a Theater Near You

It may be the best movie you'll never want to see.

October 15, 2002 Full Review Source: Cincinnati Enquirer
Cincinnati Enquirer

Audience Reviews for Crash

outstanding cronenberg work, more disturbing than anything i've seen since...'dead ringers'! don't watch if you're at all frightened of driving!
May 13, 2008
rubystevens
Stella Dallas

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In my opinion, this film is a masterpiece by Cronenberg. Features a frightening performance from Elias Koteas.
October 27, 2011
Graham Jones

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