While the bodies of these David Cronenberg characters are fusions of technology and skin, the acts that they engage in are also a sort of fusion.

| Jun 5, 2024

Somehow, its start hooks me with its original premise extracted from the fictional engine of J.G. Ballard, but I'm afraid its erotic vehicle of symphorophilia loses fuel and crashes on repetitive roads. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 21, 2023

It's a landmark movie, the kind of film that carves out its own exclusive territory in the cultural forebrain and dares us to cross its border.

| Dec 27, 2022

If you're in the market for a thrilling ride, buckle up and head for Crash.

| Apr 5, 2022

Weirdly hot, but also cold as ice.

| Dec 8, 2021

A film about a different form of doing a romantic relationship. A visual confusion between the machine and the human body. A must. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 28, 2021

Cronenberg's direction is immaculate. Everything, every shot, scene, situation, contributes to sex, cars, and crashing; there is nothing more.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 13, 2021

An exercise in "exploitation chic."

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 28, 2020

Veers fabulously across several intersections, between body horror, softcore pornography, arthouse drama, and arch satire.

| Original Score: 5 | Dec 16, 2020

Crash isn't perfect, but it's always interesting and investing enough to make up for the holes in its execution.

| Dec 10, 2020

It risks being laughed at, and there is a definite, tiny grain of Razzie absurdity that is a part of its weirdly hypnotic high-porn torpor.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 27, 2020

The film is still eerily prescient about the way technology numbs us. Some of Crash's near-surgical aesthetic and harder-edged sex feel more stuck in the '90s. But the fetishized car culture? It's still very much with us.

| Aug 18, 2020

Spader is perfectly cast as the perverted filmmaker... And Koteas is wonderfully creepy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2020

Wreckage, physical scarring, sexual encounters heightened by the proximity to danger-these are all esteemed. [Cronenberg made] a stunningly beautiful film, one of perversely satisfying passion... keenly imaginative and darkly satisfying.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Mar 15, 2018

[A] necessarily disturbing and equally profound inquiry into human desire, however self-destructive.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 12, 2012

For a movie obsessed with the connection between sexual intercourse and car accidents, David Cronenberg's Crash could hardly be more stationary.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 4, 2011

With Crash, David Cronenberg drives mainstream cinema over the edge.

| Sep 1, 2009

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.

Full Review | Sep 9, 2008

"Crash" is a mutant work of art -- a bracing splash of ice water.

| Original Score: A | Jul 30, 2007

It's a dark, disturbing, languorous movie, as ludicrous, hermetic and repetitive, perhaps, as Ballard's original, but admirably assured and true to itself.

| Jun 24, 2006