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:28
Fresh:5
Rotten:23
Average Rating:4.6/10
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
Top CriticYou see, it's all a bit too interlocking, a cable series jammed into a couple of hours.
03/20/09
Top Critic[Crossing Over] has a paint-by-numbers quality.
03/20/09
Top CriticThe film is so choppy, especially in the final going, it appears that entire reels have been cut.
03/13/09
Top CriticThere's more genuine conviction in Ford's face, more complexity, honesty and ability to incite compassion, than everything else in Crossing Over combined.
03/13/09
Top CriticAll we get is a mess of good liberal intentions loosely anchored to a mass of pure Hollywood hokum.
03/13/09
Top CriticMaybe if he [director Wayne Kramer] had kept Crossing Over simpler, he would have made a less simplistic movie.
03/13/09
Top CriticIt's Crossing Over -- or as we call it at my desk, Crash: Special Victims Unit.
03/12/09
Top CriticA responsible message movie wrapped in an irresponsible exploitation flick that cries fire in a crowded theater.
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 CriticCrossing 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 CriticWriter-director Wayne Kramer gets uniformly terrific performances from a fine cast playing pawns in the game of sex, violence and betrayal that diminishes the noble tradition of naturalized citizenship.
03/04/09
Top CriticI 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
Top CriticIt's a film about the issues, but it's a film about people.
03/02/09
Top CriticThis is a movie with the courage to examine the pressing issue of whether hot blond Aussie starlets are sleeping with government agents -- whom they meet in fender benders -- to get green cards.
02/27/09
Top CriticCrossing Over has its heart in umpteen places and its head stuffed with dramatic claptrap.
02/27/09
Top CriticAn interesting failure, a movie that at least strives to be about something, entangling itself with the question of what it means to be an American -- or, more specifically, what it means to deserve to live here.
02/27/09
Top CriticTrust Kramer, though, to spring surprises with the help of a risk-taking cast.
02/27/09
Top CriticSadly simplistic. Predictable, too.
02/27/09
Top CriticForced, heavy-handed and overdone, it's a pretend serious film that offers crass manipulation in the place where honesty is supposed to be.
02/27/09
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