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

[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

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

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

It's the cold survival logic of Darwin, where libertarians leave their past behind as if it were dead.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 5, 2005

Mr. Cronenberg, for once oddly inhibited by brazen subject matter, has made a meticulously stylized and controlled film that leaves many of its characters' ideas muffled and lacks the true audacity its material demands.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 20, 2003

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 12, 2002

"Crash" doesn't extend beyond its most immediate sensationalism. When the movie does attempt to find a theme, it slams into a brick wall of mumbo-jumbo.

| Jan 22, 2002

So far from being involving or compelling, so intentionally disconnected from any kind of recognizable emotion, that by comparison David Lynch's removed "Lost Highway" plays like "Lassie Come Home."

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 14, 2001

It's about the human mind, about the way we grow enslaved by the particular things that turn us on, and forgive ourselves our trespasses.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Its matter-of-fact tone and concentration on nuance of character in frank sex scenes renders it moving and involving rather than lurid and gratuitous.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

[A] snoozer.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000