The weakest of all five Best Picture Oscar nominees (not just Brokeback Mountain) for 2005, it's still a relevant movie that would have been even better had Haggis eased up on the gas every once in a while.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 2, 2025

Crash is a bit too on the nose as it addresses racial tensions without much subtlety. The score, cinematography, and acting are all pretty outstanding, but it isn’t enough to save the tone-deaf Crash from feeling extremely contrived and overbearing.

| Jun 27, 2023

Hampered by unrealistic dialogue and unpleasant characters, it delivers its portrayal of a world that needs changing in the most aggressive and obvious way possible.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jun 29, 2022

The overall feeling is that the project is adamant about absolving the social system of blame.

| Mar 5, 2021

The idea that every protagonist must eventually depend on an antagonist for help is a bit too much to digest, even when the cast is as large and exceptional as this one.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 29, 2020

What makes Haggis' film so relevant now is the gray areas it plumbs, the degrees and deep-seeded complexity of racism and its downstream effects.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 29, 2020

This isn't a film for everyone. Crash demands your attention and really makes you think. It's a special film that is clearly among the best I have seen this year.

| Nov 18, 2019

Thought provoking, compelling, intelligent, coherently crafted and reality based and laced. Look for Paul Haggis and his cast of characters to be on everyone's lips come Oscar 2006.

| Nov 7, 2019

It's told with a searing panache that comes to a boil as characters are forced to confront their own prejudices.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 25, 2019

Issues are raised and confronted head-on and prejudices are revealed simultaneously as the movie deftly assembles its intricately plotted narrative jigsaw.

| Feb 19, 2019

Outside of the excellent cast doing their best in impossible situations, there's virtually nothing enjoyable or aesthetically admirable here.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 12, 2019

Crash is difficult to watch because of the moral chaos it portrays, but it is best film I have seen in a long time.

| Mar 1, 2018

It's like great jazz -- infinite freedom within a limited sphere, an artful organization of exhilarating invention.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 28, 2018

For every scene loaded for narrative impact -- a car-jacking or a narrowly escaped death -- Haggis crafts workaday moments that function just as effectively.

| Feb 28, 2018

If there's anything worse than a film with no point, it's one that's all point and nothing but.

| Feb 28, 2018

The different stories never end up balancing. The dialogue is simple, too flat, despite very good intentions. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Feb 27, 2018

[Crash] is sharply observed and frequently extremely funny as well as artfully orchestrated.

| Feb 23, 2015

[Haggis] makes his directing debut with a screenplay that often seems rigged and contrived, but comes to life via excellent acting and a philosophical argument that bigotry and benevolence are inextricably intertwined.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 23, 2015

Instead of heartwarming messages about forgiveness, it honours ambiguity and brings us close, closer than is comfortable, in fact, to what Americans today are really thinking about one another.

| Feb 23, 2015

[Crash] is familiar enough that it slips easily into our film-watching faculty without any fuss, yet [Haggis'] handling of it -- his muscular belief in what he is doing -- makes us hope that his next screenplay will be a bit less safe.

| Feb 23, 2015