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OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies
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79
Visitor, The
78
Counterfeiters, The
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76
Stuff and Dough
75
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75
Shotgun Stories
74
Witnesses, The
74
Duchess of Langeais, The
72
Roman de gare
72
Priceless
72
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72
Life of Reilly, The
71
My Brother Is an Only Child
71
Blindsight
71
Standard Operating Procedure
70
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69
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69
Chicago 10
68
Honeydripper
67
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67
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67
Jellyfish
67
Year My Parents Went on Vacation, The
66
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead
66
Shelter
65
Married Life
64
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64
Water Lilies
63
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63
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63
Body of War
63
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62
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62
Son of Rambow
62
Battle for Haditha
61
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61
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60
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59
Under the Same Moon
58
First Saturday in May, The
58
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58
Fugitive Pieces
58
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58
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57
Flawless
57
Teeth
57
Without the King
57
Grand, The
56
Turn the River
56
Then She Found Me
55
Vice
55
Tracey Fragments, The
55
Pathology
55
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
54
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52
Mister Lonely
52
My Blueberry Nights
50
Look
49
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48
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48
Dark Matter
48
Penelope
47
Bella
47
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46
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45
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45
Zombie Strippers
44
Frontier(s)
44
Chaos Theory
44
Previous Engagement, A
43
Anamorph
43
Favor, The
41
Funny Games
40
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37
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35
Meet Bill
35
Babysitters, The
35
Deal
32
Backseat
32
Chapter 27
30
Cover
24
Sex and Death 101
20
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17
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xx
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xx
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xx
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Crush
Sony Pictures Classics
MPAA RATING: R for sexuality and language
Starring
Andie MacDowell,
Imelda Staunton,
Anna Chancellor,
Kenny Doughty,
and
Bill Paterson
A sharply observed ode to the triumphs and tragedies of women and the men that accessorize them. (Sony Pictures Classics)
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
John McKay
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
John McKay
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 27, 2002
Video: August 27, 2002
Theatrical: April 3, 2002
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
112 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Germany / UK |

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...
80
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
There aren't many movies that deal with middle-aged women, and this one manages to do so with a fair amount of wit and heart.

75
Boston Globe
Loren King
MacDowell offers an engaging portrait of a complex woman who has survived life's slings and arrows. It makes Crush an affecting take on modern women.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Crush is an Aga romance crossed with modern retro-feminist soft porn, in which liberated women discuss lust as if it were a topic and not a fact.

75
Chicago Tribune
Loren King
A surprising and delightful romantic take on modern women.

70
Time
Richard Corliss
The film bubbles with acid wit, in the tradition of Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges, while simmering with the ache of lust pursued and love lost.

63
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
What Crush lacks in substance and originality, it makes up for with sheer likability.

60
Variety
Derek Elley
Some fine screen chemistry between its leads and a spikey, offhandedly comic script by young writer-director John McKay put spice into Crush.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
It's the chemistry between the women and the droll scene-stealing wit and wolfish pessimism of Anna Chancellor that makes this "Two Weddings and a Funeral" fun.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Despite some jaunty performances and its pretty Cotswolds locale, the film, in the end, is hardly a pleasure at all.

50
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Andie MacDowell bursts out of her good-girl cocoon in Crush to become a bright, bad butterfly: drinking, smoking, flirting with Ecstasy, having moaning sex on a tombstone just minutes after the funeral of a friend.

50
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
MacDowell, Staunton and Chancellor are terrific, tearing into their juicy roles and reveling in first-time feature writer-director Jim McKay's sharp-tongued dialogue.

50
USA Today
Mike Clark
After "Chocolat" and this, how about a moratorium on candy-centered comedies?

50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
With heavy emphasis on cliché and stereotype, has at least four false endings -- and drags on for nearly two hours -- before it finally contrives to reunite its sitcomish pals for a last drink together.

50
Film Threat
Tim Merrill
There are pleasures to be had early on in Crush, but they get fewer and farther between. Nice while it lasts, the glow wears off all too quickly.

50
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
The tragedy that separates the Good Crush from the Bad Crush is a cleaver that severs the film's relationship with reality.
50
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
For women who smoke and drink like fiends, the trio of pre-owned babes in this weirdly rotten femme-porn romance have awfully good, unwrinkled complexions.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
In the future, as recorded in the bible of British cinema, it will be written that "Four Weddings and a Funeral" begat "The Full Monty" which begat "Billy Elliot" which begat way too many pale imitations struggling to peddle the same brand of sloppy sentimentality. Amen.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Crush is that strange mixed bag -- an otherwise wretched movie in which an actress gets to do some of her best work.

40
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
The script's foolish contrivances crush its content.
40
The New York Times
Dave Kehr
The sudden, radical change of tone is something far beyond Mr. McKay's nascent abilities as a filmmaker, and Crush never really rights itself.

38
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Crush is the kind of movie that gives friendship a bad name.
30
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
The kind of movie that gives "chick flicks" a bad reputation.

30
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Begins as a captivating romantic comedy and then, at the very moment it's most involving, takes a wholly gratuitous and disastrous swerve and just keeps on going from bad to worse.

20
New Times (L.A.)
Bill Gallo
Loquacious and dreary piece of business.

20
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
Never good, Crush takes a turn for the worse when it takes a turn for the serious. Its attempt to drop cartoon comedy for cartoon tragedy essentially thrusts the characters from Cathy into the panels of Mary Worth.

20
LA Weekly
Manohla Dargis
Whats striking about John McKay's feature debut is how much contempt toward his female characters the writer-director manages to pack into 115 minutes.

20
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Oddly off-balance, estrogen-powered dramedy.

10
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
It's about women, but as written and directed by a man, it appears to make no emotional sense at all. It treats women like idiots.

0
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Manipulative tragedy, muddled motivations, incongruous reconciliations, deranged cuteness, all of it directed with a tin ear and laden with a score that evokes the experience of a conditioned lab rat.

0
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
The most depressing movie I've seen all year; in fact, I'm hard-pressed to name a movie aimed specifically at women that has ever made me feel as insulted and disgusted.


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