While it's hard not to admire Haggis' ambition here, his lofty aspirations sapped Crash of any real ingenuity or emotional punch.
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09/26/09
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Reviews Counted:194
Fresh:146
Rotten:48
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: A raw and unsettling morality piece on modern angst and urban disconnect, Crash examines the dangers of bigotry and xenophobia in the lives of interconnected Angelenos.
Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:May 6, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $54,557,348
Synopsis: A Brentwood housewife and her DA husband. A Persian store owner. Two police detectives who are also lovers. A black television director and his wife. A Mexican locksmith. Two car-jackers. A rookie... [More]
Starring: Thandie Newton, Matt Dillon, Don Cheadle, Michael Pena
Director: Paul Haggis
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06/18/09
A film I intend to spend much of my life spreading the word about, because it deserves much talk and discussion among its viewers.
04/29/09
A hard-hitting film whose seemingly unconnected stories and characters intersect boldly, jolting us into a raw awareness of the volatility of ethnic mix in which we live.
10/18/08
The script by director Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco has a scolding air to it, and watching the movie is like taking a dose of castor oil -- probably good for us but not a lot of fun.
08/07/08
Crash is, easily, one of the strongest American films in years. When it was over, I sat in my chair, shell-shocked in stunned silence, trying to sort out my tangled emotions.
02/28/08
The overall impression is vividly complex and provocative in the best sense.
08/16/07
Don't let yourself get carried away by the raves: Crash is solid but no masterpiece.
07/30/07
Mr. Haggis offers no easy answers, just hard questions.
07/14/07
a searingly powerful, at times transcendent, examination of a nation's culture, alienated from, and afraid of, itself.
07/03/07
A film teeming with solemn recognition of the nasty complexities of living in a multicultural society, and much of what remains unspoken racially in America being neatly shoved under a complacent rug.
05/22/07
For a violent film, it is inordinately humane and refreshingly unpredictable.
03/01/07
This articulate and particularly poignant mood piece demands nothing of its audience, except for some brutally honest introspection about our unquestioned presumptions about the human condition. Easily, the best film of 2005.
01/03/07
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10/03/06
a corny Hollywood attempt at a social problem drama, well acted enough to recommend
08/20/06
Stereotypes had painfully little to the discourse of American prejudice.
07/20/06
Filters every scene… through the prism of race, but keeps turning the prism around and around until the colors no longer matter and we see only what the characters do.
04/12/06
Quickly turns into a preachy, soapbox movie.
03/09/06
Obnoxious, hollow, and not at all as smart or important as it thinks it is.
03/04/06
Film constructed of wild coincidences. A throwback to stodgy liberal melodrama of the 1960s like "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". Says zero about the social and economic realities of LA that breed racism.
02/04/06
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