It’s smart, therefore, that Haggis has written such novel, precisely observed, often unpleasant characters as the ones Bullock, Dillon, and Cheadle inhabit.
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Crash (2005)
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Reviews Counted:38
Fresh:29
Rotten:9
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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Reviews for Crash
Top CriticEnjoy the wonderful performances by a cast very committed to the cause.
08/30/05
Top Critic[Has a] spirited and talented ensemble cast, which Haggis directs with sensitivity.
05/13/05
Top CriticToo facile.
05/12/05
Top CriticHaggis's drama is about much more than interlocking front-end collisions. It's about the way we learn, often badly, about one another and how it may take a bad confrontation to peel away the misperceptions.
05/06/05
Top CriticThis is the rare American film really about something, and almost all the performances are riveting. It asks tough questions, and lets its audience struggle with the answers.
05/06/05
Top CriticThe best parts of Crash are as good as they are because they confront us with behaviour we might be capable of under the same circumstances. And we're not bad people. Are we?
05/06/05
Top CriticAnd so Crash raises the question: If racism is so pervasive in our society, why do we need such an elaborately contrived plot to drive home the message? In other words: How many racists does it take to screw in the point?
05/06/05
Top CriticCrash isn't set half-a-century ago, in some place of dusty roads and Skoal-spitting sheriffs. It takes place now, in Los Angeles, that most modern of American cities.
05/06/05
Top CriticAn ambitious and often wonderful movie, an expansive look at urban life -- the fractious, noisy whole of it -- filled with witty, biting and insightful writing.
05/06/05
Top CriticHaggis bends back one full day to unravel the tangled threads leading to the crash, and, in turn, the tangle justifies the existence of his varied and polyglot ensemble.
05/06/05
Top CriticOne of the finest American movies to engage our diverse richness and our casual and not-so-casual ethnic hostility.
05/06/05
Top CriticCharacters come straight from the assembly line of screenwriting archetypes, and too often they act in ways that archetypes, rather than human beings, do.
05/06/05
Top CriticThe characters and individual dramas remain interesting in a personal way, but the overall conception of Crash is hackneyed.
05/06/05
Top CriticCrash wants to be taken seriously as a meditation on our anxiety-plagued times, but the coincidences are too pat, the tugs on the heartstrings too insistent.
05/06/05
Top CriticCheadle serves as the movie's Greek chorus, sorting out the fender benders that serve as a metaphor for a city where, Haggis implies, racial profiling rivals moviemaking as a leading activity.
05/06/05
Top CriticWhat emerges from the movie's emotional fender-bending and concentrated irony are moments of awe-inspiring reach, the kind of full-throttle acting that demands attention.
05/06/05
Top CriticYou will watch much of Crash in dread. That's not so much because you know things are going to get worse -- they do -- before they get better, but because you know Haggis is getting to the nut of things.
05/06/05
Top CriticHaggis writes with such directness and such a good ear for everyday speech that the characters seem real and plausible after only a few words. His cast is uniformly strong; the actors sidestep cliches and make their characters particular.
05/05/05
Top CriticAudiences may cringe as Haggis taps into the kind of offensive images that surreptitiously seep into the brains of even the most open-minded. His point is simple: No one is immune.
05/05/05
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