Crash
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47 out of 100

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6.8 out of 10

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  • Starring: Holly Hunter, James Spader
  • Summary: The immediate subject matter of Crash is the strange lure of the auto collision, provoking as it does the human fascination with death and the tendency to eroticize danger. Most motorists will slow down to stare at the scene of a collision; they may feel their pulses quickening and become exquisitely aware of the fragility of their own bodies. The characters of Crash carry this awareness a step further, cherishing and nurturing it. For them, a car collision is a sexual turn-on, and a jolting life-force they come to crave. (Fine Line Features)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 22
  3. Negative: 6 out of 22
  1. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Christopher Sharrett
    100
    Crash seems incredibly prescient, yet rather naive. The film is a stunning document of our alienated civilization, all the more compelling with its dolorous, almost liturgical tones.
  2. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Edward Guthmann
    75
    I'm not quite sure what David Cronenberg is trying to say in Crash, but whatever it is, he deserves a lot of credit for having the nerve to put it on screen and face the consequences.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Elvis Mitchell
    60
    The Crash characters sleepwalk through this story in a state of futuristic numbness, seeking extreme forms of sensation because familiar feelings have long since failed them. It's a chilling, ghastly possibility that manages to exert a grim fascination.
  4. Variety
    Reviewed by: Todd McCarthy
    30
    Cronenberg is a master of creating and sustaining a mood of insinuating cool and dark allure, but while the director remains firmly behind the wheel for the first hour or so, he cracks up toward the end with sequences that send the film and the audience into a ditch.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 5
  3. Negative: 1 out of 5
  1. Joe
    10
    Outstanding film - one of the most powerful and fully realised of Cronenberg's whole career. Excellent performances all round. Haunting, intelligent and long-lasting.… Expand
  2. MathewB.
    10
    A Post-modern masterpiece of cinema. Driven by the eye rather than ear. Deceptively complex. Demands a lot from the viewer.
  3. John_Holmes
    9
    This obsessive adaptation of J.G. Ballardâ
  4. LaGuerta
    4
    An undoubtedly important film but it's hard to care about characters defined only by their controversial sexual preferences. It is easy to become disengaged with the film and that says a lot, given the subject matter… Expand

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