There are good performances here, but the sheer number dilutes their power, leaving the movie a bit of a mess.
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03/25/09
Crossing Over (2009)
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Reviews Counted:102
Fresh:16
Rotten:86
Average Rating:4.1/10
Consensus: Crossing Over is flagrant and heavy-handed about a situation that deserves more deliberate treatment, and joins its characters with coincidences that strain believability.
Theatrical Release:Feb 27, 2009 Limited
Box Office: $402,469
Synopsis: The struggle to achieve resident alien status, or gain full-blown citizenship in the United States, provides some thought-provoking material in this feature from director Wayne Kramer(THE COOLER).... [More]
Starring: Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, Ashley Judd, Cliff Curtis
Director: Wayne Kramer
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Reviews for Crossing Over
Crossing Over has been surrounded by controversy ever since it wrapped up shooting way back in 2007...
03/13/09
I think this is really an exceptional film. I didn't find really a false note in the behavior of any of these characters.
03/02/09
It's a film about the issues, but it's a film about people.
03/02/09
Tied together with endless, flattening shots of L.A.'s cloverleaf freeways, Crossing Over is often simplistic and occasionally lugubrious, but it's rarely boring.
03/02/09
A well-intentioned but ham-handed exploration of U.S. immigration policies, this movie's message is undermined by its cardboard characters and clunky script.
03/05/09
It's Crossing Over -- or as we call it at my desk, Crash: Special Victims Unit.
03/12/09
Top CriticThe best you can say is that Kramer is ambitious enough to present the problem. Yet he's too unsophisticated to tear off any painful societal scabs or materially add to the debate.
02/04/09
While the film certainly has some viable, provocative points to make about the US's attitudes to migrants and the labyrinthine horrors of getting citizenship, it lacks the subtlety and eloquence it really needs to succeed.
07/31/09
[Crossing Over] has a paint-by-numbers quality.
03/20/09
Crossing Over seems to strain, with too many characters, too many story strands and too much of an effort to cover the bases.
03/12/09
Top CriticThe characters don't relate; they trade expedient expository nuggets, when they're not speechifying. A surfeit of coincidence spoils our empathy. And when a character%u2014any character%u2014says "You doubt the veracity of my heart," you have to doubt the
03/12/09
Top CriticIt's a powerful opening to a movie that rapidly fractures into a hodgepodge of interlocking subplots showcasing immigration woes.
03/02/09
About as airless and preachy as movies come.
03/06/09
A sub-par knockoff of Paul Haggis' "Crash," writer/ director Wayne Kramer's L.A.-based dramatic tapestry is a threadbare yawner.
02/28/09
Characters are stretched thin with only the most overstuffed dialogue to express themselves. As a result, the film is airless and petrified.
03/06/09
This politically-minded ensemble drama's obvious attempts at being Traffic or Crash barely gets out of the garage before it stalls in neutral.
02/25/09
Intense immigration drama doesn't live up to its intentions.
02/27/09
Some stories are more convincing than others in this sprawling blend of thriller, melodrama and social drama.
07/31/09
Writer-director Wayne Kramer insists on trying to tell us all the way through what we should feel. Yet, by the end, it's not clear what he's trying to say: are U.S. immigration laws unfair, unnecessary or badly enforced?
07/31/09
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