Crash Reviews
Las Vegas Weekly
By attempting to say everything about race, Haggis ultimately says nothing.
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| Original Score: 1/5
EricDSnider.com
The film's real message isn't anti-racism but pro-screenwriter. 'Look how many coincidences we can pile up!' it seems to say. 'Look at how these stories all interlock!'
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| Original Score: C+
IGN Movies
Controversy isn't nearly as intriguing when it is created merely for controversy's sake.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Combustible Celluloid
Quickly turns into a preachy, soapbox movie.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
eFilmCritic.com
Obnoxious, hollow, and not at all as smart or important as it thinks it is.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Movies for the Masses
full review in Greek
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Top CriticAn already over-eventful narrative -- what, another crash? -- teeters into melodramatic implausibility.
Bangor Daily News (Maine)
White guilt run amok.
| Original Score: D
7M Pictures
I'm sure the filmmakers want it to start a dialogue about race, but this film has about as much racially unifying power as Rodney King.
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| Original Score: 0.5/5
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A preposterous view of American life that bleakly covers the surface of the social problems it tried to paint with such broad brush strokes.
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| Original Score: C
Blogcritics.org
The L.A. of Crash is a distorted scale model of the city that [writer-director Paul] Haggis treats as if it were the city itself.
rec.arts.movies.reviews
The contrivances of first-time director Paul Haggis's script ultimately hurt the film but this Crash is still worth a curious drive-by look.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Full of well-observed supporting riffs, Crash might've accumulated more frisson had it cast a clearer eye on how social tension actually plays.
Americans from radically different backgrounds are brought together by a grim serendipity in Paul Haggis's frustrating directorial debut.
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| Original Score: 2/5
The characters and individual dramas remain interesting in a personal way, but the overall conception of Crash is hackneyed.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Characters come straight from the assembly line of screenwriting archetypes, and too often they act in ways that archetypes, rather than human beings, do.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Goatdog's Movies
I almost liked it, because of how the actors struggled, and sometimes succeeded, to rise above the domineering message and create real people.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Flipside Movie Emporium
What happens between the film's opening and closing car accidents more closely resembles a train wreck.
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| Original Score: C-
Cinema Sight
Stereotypes had painfully little to the discourse of American prejudice.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
