a corny Hollywood attempt at a social problem drama, well acted enough to recommend
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08/20/06
Crash (2005)
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Reviews Counted:194
Fresh:146
Rotten:48
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: A raw and unsettling morality piece on modern angst and urban disconnect, Crash examines the dangers of bigotry and xenophobia in the lives of interconnected Angelenos.
Theatrical Release:12-08-2005
Synopsis: A Brentwood housewife and her DA husband. A Persian store owner. Two police detectives who are also lovers. A black television director and his wife. A Mexican locksmith. Two car-jackers. A rookie... [More]
Starring: Thandie Newton, Matt Dillon, Don Cheadle, Michael Pena
Director: Paul Haggis
Reviews for Crash
Stereotypes had painfully little to the discourse of American prejudice.
07/20/06
Filters every scene… through the prism of race, but keeps turning the prism around and around until the colors no longer matter and we see only what the characters do.
04/12/06
Quickly turns into a preachy, soapbox movie.
03/09/06
Obnoxious, hollow, and not at all as smart or important as it thinks it is.
03/04/06
Film constructed of wild coincidences. A throwback to stodgy liberal melodrama of the 1960s like "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". Says zero about the social and economic realities of LA that breed racism.
02/04/06
The problem with the movie is that it is so brash and transparent in its attempt to spotlight and expose every single conceivable racial divide and stereotype, it loses all credibility and can't be but gawked at.
01/04/06
Haggis and savvy editor Hughes Winborne manage to pull all of these threads together and weave an engaging look at the abhorrent state of racism ... in our major cities.
12/28/05
Uno está dispuesto a perdonarle todos sus facilismos porque, en términos cinematográficos, es un muy buen drama.
12/14/05
Tense, entertaining, and poignant- the film is a worthwhile watch. A high rate of coincidence robs it of some credibility. Yet, in some ways plays more as a myth, a parable.
12/13/05
It’s smart, therefore, that Haggis has written such novel, precisely observed, often unpleasant characters as the ones Bullock, Dillon, and Cheadle inhabit.
12/09/05
well-acted and well-directed, but also betrayed by its script
12/05/05
Presenting this year's middlebrow flog-pony.
10/09/05
The directing and editing are phenomenal, as are performances by the ensemble cast.
10/07/05
... everyone should see this movie.
10/07/05
I almost liked it, because of how the actors struggled, and sometimes succeeded, to rise above the domineering message and create real people.
09/26/05
Any relation to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
09/26/05
It's the sort of movie that makes people feel like they've heard an important statement without actually having said anything much.
09/16/05
White guilt run amok.
09/01/05
Enjoy the wonderful performances by a cast very committed to the cause.
08/30/05
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