Crash
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69 out of 100

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7.9 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 235 Ratings

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  • Starring: Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock
  • Summary: 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) … Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 36
  3. Negative: 0 out of 36
  1. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Stephen Hunter
    Feb 15, 2011
    100
    This is the rare American film really about something, and almost all the performances are riveting.
  2. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Ken Tucker
    Feb 15, 2011
    80
    It's a film you won't stop thinking about, arguing over, debating, after the lights come up.
  3. The New Republic
    Reviewed by: Stanley Kauffmann
    Feb 15, 2011
    60
    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.
  4. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    Feb 15, 2011
    60
    Full of well-observed supporting riffs, Crash might've accumulated more frisson had it cast a clearer eye on how social tension actually plays.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 110 out of 134
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 134
  3. Negative: 17 out of 134
  1. Yossi
    10
    Great Film!!
  2. grandpajoe6191
    8
    "Crash", a racial movie directed by the famous Paul Haggis, is a masterpiece. With a powerhouse cast with a good lead from the director, the movie starts with pain and anger and triumphantly ends with love and forgiveness. It surely is one of the greatest movies i've seen currently these days.… Expand
  3. GraemeHigginson
    5
    "Crash" by Paul Haggis is a film with a terrible sense of scope and content. It
  4. hampusforev
    4
    I think the negative reviewers are a little harsh, I wouldn't call it racist by any stretch of the imagination. But cliched as all hell? Yeah. This is typical hollywood masquerading, trying to be deep and meaningful. Lacks Robert Altmans subtle weird humanism in Short Cuts. Plagued by white guilt, the movie runs the complicated issue of race through Hollywoods dreaded machinery of doom, leaving just scraps of brilliant acting and dialogue submerged in a mire of annoyingly coincidental plotpoints.… Expand

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