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What Goes Up
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91
Hurt Locker, The
89
Goodbye Solo
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Tulpan
87
Gomorrah
86
Seraphine
84
Summer Hours
83
U2 3D
83
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83
Tyson
82
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
82
Sugar
82
Hunger
82
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
81
Il Divo
81
Beaches of Agnes, The
80
Food, Inc.
80
Tokyo Sonata
79
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
78
Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story, The
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77
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77
Sin Nombre
75
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74
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74
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74
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74
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74
Lemon Tree
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71
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70
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70
Tony Manero
70
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69
Valentino: The Last Emperor
69
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Adoration
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65
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64
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64
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63
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63
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62
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62
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61
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60
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59
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58
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58
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58
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57
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57
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57
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54
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54
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54
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52
Quiet Chaos
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47
Whatever Works
42
Little Ashes
42
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40
Limits of Control, The
40
Paris 36
38
Gigantic
36
Life is Hot in Cracktown
28
Big Shot-Caller, The
28
Surveillance
22
What Goes Up
18
Downloading Nancy
16
I Hate Valentine's Day
xx
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xx
Home
xx
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xx
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Crash
Lions Gate Films Inc.
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FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for language, sexual content and some violence
Starring
Sandra Bullock,
Don Cheadle,
Matt Dillon,
Jennifer Esposito,
William Fichtner,
Brendan Fraser, Terrence Dashon Howard,
Ludacris, Thandie Newton,
and
Ryan Phillippe
A provocative, unflinching look at the complexities of racial tolerance in contemporary America. Diving headlong into the diverse melting pot of post-9/11 Los Angeles, this compelling urban drama tracks the volatile intersections of a multi-ethnic case of characters' struggles to overcome their fears as they careen in and out of one another's lives. (Lions Gate Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Crime
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Drama
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Mystery
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Paul Haggis (also story)
Robert Moresco
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Paul Haggis
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 6, 2005
Video: September 6, 2005
Theatrical: May 6, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
100 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA / Germany |
Named Best Picture of 2005 at the 78th Annual Academy Awards. Nominated for a total of six Oscars, winning in three categories.
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
The New Yorker
David Denby
Hyper-articulate and often breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's "Mystic River," though it is not for the fainthearted.
100
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The stunning, must-see drama Crash is proof that words have not lost the ability to shock in our anesthetized society.
100
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Not just one of the best Hollywood movies about race, but, along with "Collateral," one of the finest portrayals of contemporary Los Angeles life period.
100
Austin Chronicle
Steve Davis
It's the most compelling American movie to come around in a long, long time.
100
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Haggis writes with such directness and such a good ear for everyday speech that the characters seem real and plausible after only a few words. His cast is uniformly strong; the actors sidestep cliches and make their characters particular.
90
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
This is the rare American film really about something, and almost all the performances are riveting.
90
Dallas Observer
Robert Wilonsky
What makes Crash so gripping--so terrifying in spots, so moving in others, and even a little funny at times--is how nothing happens as we think it will.
88
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Crash fools around with chronology in a Tarantinoesque way that brings its story full circle. You could argue that as events, and people, merge, Haggis' spiky screenplay (cowritten with Bobby Moresco) gets to be, quite simply, too much.
88
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The acting is dynamite, notably by Dillon and Newton in their shocking second encounter. Despite its preachy moments, the film is a knockout.
88
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Like Robert Altman's "Short Cuts," it is an all-star fresco, but the stars--none of whom carries the movie--get to play the kind of morally ambivalent, sometimes unlikable parts that big-name actors usually avoid.
88
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Flaws are outweighed by Crash's intricate construction and intelligent.
80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Life's an exhilarating and often dangerous ride, and its accidents can yield good and bad things. Anticipation of the bad keeps us watching Crash, to be sure, but so does hope of the good.
80
Empire
Simon Braund
A haunting, perceptive and uncompromising examination of controversial subject matter, expertly written and directed by Paul Haggis and characterised by excellent performances from its starry cast.
80
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Pivots on the characters' racism and xenophobia, playing tricks with our own biases and ultimately justifying an extravagant array of coincidences and surprises.
80
New York Magazine
Ken Tucker
It's a film you won't stop thinking about, arguing over, debating, after the lights come up.
75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Unfortunately, the running time is too short for us to get to know, or care about, the characters in a way that would make the film's themes strike a responsive chord.
75
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Never reaches the heights of "Short Cuts" or "Magnolia" -- two multi-story films that clearly provided inspiration -- but it's a thoughtful road trip well worth taking.
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
The result is a film where blisteringly naturalistic drama bumps up against sentimentally arch melodrama (that's the biggest collision in Crash). Haggis showed the same tendency in his script for "Million Dollar Baby," yet there it was better hidden under a simpler narrative. Here, the tendency has gotten magnified right along with his thematic ambitions.
70
Wall Street Journal
Joanne Kaufmann
Ultimately, Crash succeeds in spite of itself. Its color war starts to feel obvious and schematic. Its coincidences and clichés become like a pileup on the 405 freeway, but there it is -- you find yourself rubbernecking and can't manage to look away.
70
Variety
Todd McCarthy
The tense drama eventually becomes off-putting when it becomes clear almost every scene hinges on an unpleasant or ugly racial interaction.
67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Crash can't rise from the ashes of its pessimism.
63
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Its characters come straight from the assembly line of screenwriting archetypes, and too often they act in ways that archetypes, rather than human beings, do. You can feel its creator shuttling them here and there on the grid of greater LA, pausing portentously between each move.
60
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
Haggis has made a safe picture. It is familiar enough that it slips easily into our film-watching faculty without any fuss, yet his handling of it--his muscular belief in what he is doing--makes us hope that his next screenplay will be a bit less safe.
60
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Haggis, who wrote the fine adapted screenplay for "Million Dollar Baby," embeds Crash's script so deeply in allegory that every revelation feels manipulative and programmatic, in spite of some terrific individual scenes and performances.
60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Rather than feel reductively schematic, the film overall seems vividly complex and provocative in the true sense of the word -- it challenges viewers to reflect and discuss, rather than surrender to knee-jerk reactions.
60
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Full of well-observed supporting riffs, Crash might've accumulated more frisson had it cast a clearer eye on how social tension actually plays.
50
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
A well-intentioned but obvious, often clumsy picture.
50
Miami Herald
Peter Debruge
Almost certain to polarize audiences, this bit of emotional agitprop plays like a watered-down "Short Cuts" or "Magnolia" with a shrill, one-note message: We're all a little bit racist.
50
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Concludes in a shower of ashes, which is fitting because this movie is a billowing bonfire of ugly human behavior. Rarely have there been so many characters in need of timeouts, cold showers or house arrests.
50
Premiere
Glenn Kenny
It's too bad that the movie induces eyeball-rolling almost as much as it does armrest-clutching.
50
Slate
David Edelstein
It might even have been a landmark film about race relations had its aura of blunt realism not been dispelled by a toxic cloud of dramaturgical pixie dust.
50
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
So what kind of a movie is Crash? A frustrating movie: full of heart and devoid of life; crudely manipulative when it tries hardest to be subtle; and profoundly complacent in spite of its intention to unsettle and disturb.
50
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
Any glimpse of emotional honesty comes courtesy of the actors, who manage to do a credible job despite the material.
50
Newsweek
David Ansen
An ambitious, intense, but overdetermined exploration of the varieties of ethnic intolerance.
50
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
These interlocking stories don't move along as swiftly or as urgently as they should, and much of the dialogue thumps along on square wheels.
50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
In the end, Crash lacks a cumulative impact. It takes audiences to new places, but we've all been to similar places, and we walk out knowing no more than we did walking in.
50
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
New York critics have anointed Crash in advance as the Second Coming, but it's just another over-ambitious first movie.
42
Portland Oregonian
Marc Mohan
The result is a hybrid of "Falling Down" and "Short Cuts" without the iconic central character of the former or the latter's clear-eyed humanism.
40
Film Threat
Greg Wilson
I have seen it before. I saw it when I saw "Magnolia", and "Traffic", and "Grand Canyon."
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