Crash Reviews

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.

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

Full Review | Original Score: 39/100

A masterpiece that deserves to be watch and discussed.

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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.

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

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.

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

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

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Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Stereotypes had painfully little to the discourse of American prejudice.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: B

Quickly turns into a preachy, soapbox movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

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

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

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.

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5