Crash (2005)

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Haggis moves seamlessly between all these stories and has structured them in such a way that his characters reach a crisis point simultaneously, followed by melancholy clarity.

February 15, 2013 Full Review

Christy Lemire

Associated Press

Top Critic

It's smart, therefore, that Haggis has written such novel, precisely observed, often unpleasant characters as the ones Bullock, Dillon, and Cheadle inhabit.

December 9, 2005 Full Review

Ken Tucker

New York Magazine

Top Critic

Enjoy the wonderful performances by a cast very committed to the cause.

August 30, 2005

Andrew Sun

Hollywood Reporter

Top Critic

An already over-eventful narrative -- what, another crash? -- teeters into melodramatic implausibility.

August 11, 2005 Full Review

Geoff Andrew

Time Out

Top Critic

[Has a] spirited and talented ensemble cast, which Haggis directs with sensitivity.

May 13, 2005 Full Review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

Too facile.

May 12, 2005 Full Review | Comments (6)

Andrew Sarris

New York Observer

Top Critic

While it's hard not to admire Haggis' ambition here, his lofty aspirations sapped Crash of any real ingenuity or emotional punch.

September 26, 2009 Full Review | Comments (9)

Gabe Leibowitz

Film and Felt

A film I intend to spend much of my life spreading the word about, because it deserves much talk and discussion among its viewers.

April 29, 2009 Full Review

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

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.

October 18, 2008 Full Review

Urban Cinefile Critics

Urban Cinefile

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.

August 7, 2008 Full Review

Jim Lane

Sacramento News & Review

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.

February 28, 2008 Full Review

Brandon Fibbs

BrandonFibbs.com

Don't let yourself get carried away by the raves: Crash is solid but no masterpiece.

July 30, 2007 Full Review

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

Mr. Haggis offers no easy answers, just hard questions.

July 14, 2007 Full Review

Joe Lozito

Big Picture Big Sound

a searingly powerful, at times transcendent, examination of a nation's culture, alienated from, and afraid of, itself.

July 3, 2007 Full Review

Anton Bitel

Eye for Film

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.

May 22, 2007 Full Review

Prairie Miller

Long Island Press

For a violent film, it is inordinately humane and refreshingly unpredictable.

March 1, 2007 Full Review

Harry Haun

Film Journal International

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.

January 3, 2007 Full Review

Kam Williams

BlackNews.com

full review in Greek

October 3, 2006 Full Review

Joseph Proimakis

Movies for the Masses

a corny Hollywood attempt at a social problem drama, well acted enough to recommend

August 20, 2006 Full Review | Comments (3)

Jay Antani

Cinema Writer

Stereotypes had painfully little to the discourse of American prejudice.

July 20, 2006 Full Review | Comments (3)

Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

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.

April 12, 2006 Full Review

Steven D. Greydanus

Decent Films Guide

Quickly turns into a preachy, soapbox movie.

March 9, 2006 Full Review | Comment (1)

Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

Obnoxious, hollow, and not at all as smart or important as it thinks it is.

March 4, 2006 Full Review | Comments (12)

David Cornelius

eFilmCritic.com

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.

February 4, 2006 Full Review | Comments (3)

Louis Proyect

rec.arts.movies.reviews

The problem with the movie is that it is so brash and transparent in its attempt to spotlight and expose every single conceivable racial divide and stereotype, it loses all credibility and can't be but gawked at.

January 4, 2006 Full Review | Comment (1)

Jordan Hiller

Bangitout.com

• 1. Anthony: Time is money.
  – Submitted by Jean R (2 months ago)
• 1. Graham Waters: It's the sense of touch.
  2. Ria: What?
  3. Graham Waters: In the real city you, you walk, you know? You brush past people. People bump into you. In L.A. nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much that we crash into each other just so we can feel something.
  – Submitted by Jean R (3 months ago)
• 1. Daniel: So she reaches into her backpack and she pulls out this invisible cloak and she ties it around my neck. And she tells me that it's impenetrable. You know what impenetrable means? It means nothing can go through it. No bullets, nothing. She told me that if I wore it, nothing would hurt me. So I did. And my whole life, I never got shot, stabbed, nothing. I mean, how weird is that?
  – Submitted by Mati M (3 months ago)
• 1. Graham Waters: Well, fuck you very much. But thanks for thinking of me
  – Submitted by Mati M (3 months ago)
• 1. Officer Tom Hanson: You think you know who you are. You had no idea.
  – Submitted by Carlos S (13 months ago)
• 1. Graham Waters: In any real city, you walk, you brush past people, and people bump into you. In L.A, nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other just so we can feel something.
  – Submitted by Alejandro O (18 months ago)

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