Crash Reviews
Top CriticHaggis 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.
Cinema Crazed
A masterpiece that deserves to be watch and discussed.
Urban Cinefile
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.
Sacramento News & Review
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
BrandonFibbs.com
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.
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| Original Score: 8/10
eFilmCritic.com
Don't let yourself get carried away by the raves: Crash is solid but no masterpiece.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Big Picture Big Sound
Mr. Haggis offers no easy answers, just hard questions.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Eye for Film
a searingly powerful, at times transcendent, examination of a nation's culture, alienated from, and afraid of, itself.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Long Island Press
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.
Film Journal International
For a violent film, it is inordinately humane and refreshingly unpredictable.
BlackNews.com
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.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Cinema Writer
a corny Hollywood attempt at a social problem drama, well acted enough to recommend
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Decent Films Guide
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.
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| Original Score: B
Bangitout.com
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.
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| Original Score: 2/5
JWR
Haggis and savvy editor Hughes Winborne manage to pull all of these threads together and weave an engaging look at the abhorrent state of racism ... in our major cities.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Uruguay Total
Uno está dispuesto a perdonarle todos sus facilismos porque, en términos cinematográficos, es un muy buen drama.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Hollywood Report Card
Tense, entertaining, and poignant- the film is a worthwhile watch. A high rate of coincidence robs it of some credibility. Yet, in some ways plays more as a myth, a parable.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
It's smart, therefore, that Haggis has written such novel, precisely observed, often unpleasant characters as the ones Bullock, Dillon, and Cheadle inhabit.
Draxblog Movie Reviews
well-acted and well-directed, but also betrayed by its script
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| Original Score: 6/10
