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Crossroads
Paramount Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sexual content and brief teen drinking
Starring
Britney Spears,
Zoe Saldana,
Anson Mount,
Taryn Manning,
Justin Long,
Dan Aykroyd,
and
Kim Cattrall
The story of three childhood friends, Lucy (Spears), Kit (Saldana) and Mimi (Manning), who, after eight years apart, rediscover their friendship on a cross-country trip. (Paramount Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Shonda Rhimes
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Tamra Davis
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: July 23, 2002
Video: July 23, 2002
Theatrical: February 15, 2002
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
97 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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...
83
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Not only makes excellent use of the singer's sweetly coltish acting abilities, but it also promotes a standardized set of sturdy values with none of Mariah Carey's desperate ''Glitter,'' or any of Mandy Moore's gummy pap in ''A Walk to Remember.''

50
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Everything she (Spears) does seems diluted and secondhand and is never transformed into something original or indelibly self-expressive.

50
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Adults will wish the movie were less simplistic, obvious, clumsily plotted and shallowly characterized. But what are adults doing in the theater at all?

50
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Here's what Crossroads does not have: Cohesive direction from Tamra Davis, intelligent dialogue, a comprehensible plot.

50
Chicago Tribune
Robert K. Elder
Spears delivers a performance with the same sincerity she invests into a Pepsi commercial, only this film contains twice the sugary calories.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
This is a star vehicle that stalls.

50
New Times (L.A.)
Luke Y. Thompson
Highbrow self-appointed guardians of culture need not apply, but those who loved "Cool as Ice" have at last found a worthy follow-up.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
Marks the emergence of a talented young actress. Not Britney -- who has the amateur's tendency to stand looking awkward after delivering her lines -- but Manning (Crazy/Beautiful), who plays Mimi with the gusto of a young Holly Hunter. Though she has little competition here, when she's on the screen she pretty much owns it.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Fascinating in its own strange way, not as entertainment but as a cultural document.

50
Boston Globe
Loren King
Packaged fluff aimed low, and patronizingly, at Spears's legion of young female fans.

40
Slate
David Edelstein
So vanilla yet so transcendentally sleazy that its target audience seems to be pubescent girls and dirty old priests.

40
Film Threat
Michael Dequina
Spears, Davis, and company are well aware that they're making nothing more than the cinematic equivalent of Spears' glossy bubble gum pop -- but that's exactly the problem.

40
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
The movie is a lumbering load of hokum, but unlike those other recent pop star white elephants -- it's at least watchable.

40
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The film's mealy-mouthed messages about feminine empowerment will almost certainly fall on deaf ears, since even 11-year-olds know Spears's power resides largely in her taut torso.

38
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Less a movie than a mind-numbingly dull road trip.

38
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I went to Crossroads expecting a glitzy bimbofest and got the bimbos but not the fest. Britney Spears' feature debut is curiously low-key and even sad.

33
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Ellen A. Kim
Crossroads may now fall into the same paragraph as "Glitter," Mariah Carey's disastrous star vehicle.

30
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
When the cast is shown during the final credits repeatedly cracking up in blown takes, one would like to think they were laughing at some of the lines they were expected to deliver.

30
Village Voice
Jane Dark
You spend a lot of time wondering, "Better or worse than Glitter?" You think if the projectionist cranked the volume a little you could actually sort of get into this.

30
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Not a music video, not yet a movie, but more like an extended-play advertisement for the Product that is Britney.

30
The New Yorker
David Denby
What it's really about, of course, is the very delicate marketing problem of turning a super-bland pop star into an acceptable human being onscreen. [4 Mar 2002, p. 90]
25
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
Young girls are the only ones likely to enjoy this vapid road-trip movie.

25
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
In a way, it's probably unfair to blame director Tamra Davis exclusively for this debacle. After all, she's toiling in the shadow of a would-be multi-media superstar, making her essentially a hired gun.

20
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
So dull, a road-trip movie that's surprisingly short of both adventure and song.

20
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
Spears is filmed and costumed in such a harsh, unflattering manner that it looks like Christina Aguilera bribed the crew to make her rival look as hideous as possible. Spears' ubiquity has spawned an inevitable backlash, but the awful Crossroads ought to do more harm to her career than even the most powerful Britney-basher.

20
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Awfully lame bigscreen debut for pop diva Britney Spears.

20
Los Angeles Times
John Anderson
Spears acquits herself as well as anyone might, in a movie as contrived and lazy as this one.

12
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A movie so pathetically lame that hopefully even Spears most ardent young fans will give this stinker a big thumbs down.

0
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Functions mainly as a big-screen showcase for America's No. 1 teen tease, with the story and other characters serving mainly as accessories.

0
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Go see Crossroads if you want to hear Britney sing or see her wear next-to-nothing. But otherwise, avoid this train wreck at all costs.
0
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It does wonders to a critic to know that [Britney] could be a continuing font of teen and post-teen kitsch for years to come.


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