I enjoyed Crisis. The performances are first rate and the tension builds throughout to a climax and then an aftermath.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 26, 2021

It's a union of crime and politics of the kind that you might expect to find on one of the streaming services, but it's given extra heft by its broad canvas and ambitious segues.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 25, 2021

For all of its good intentions, the generic Crisis isn't showing us anything new.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 19, 2021

Those who have died or spent years tackling the opioid crisis deserve better than this.

| Mar 17, 2021

The film's narrative and characters reason that any difficult situation can be solved with blind brute force and a pistol. If you're looking for a cutting critique of the American addiction industry, look elsewhere.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 11, 2021

It's a little too all over the place, with a few too many movies trying to be contained in this to be able to come together and make sense.

| Mar 10, 2021

It's a noble effort, but like plans for a quick trip across the river to Montreal, "Crisis" never comes together.

| Original Score: C | Mar 1, 2021

Its biggest crisis is that it's a thriller with no thrills.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 27, 2021

The film juggles three main stories and more minor ones, and several end up going over the top...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 27, 2021

Crisis feels like a lecture made up entirely of hypotheticals.

| Feb 26, 2021

The tragedy associated with such stories could provide fertile territory, theoretically, for a good drama about what went wrong and who's ultimately responsible. That movie might get made someday, but Crisis isn't it.

| Feb 26, 2021

A classic example of a movie that wants to be a little bit of everything, only to add up to a much lesser version of something you keep waiting to see.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 26, 2021

Nicholas Jarecki who wrote, directed, produced, and also appears in a supporting role, does none of these things well. Especially all of them.... [Crisis] is meant to be hard-hitting, but it is completely soft-headed.

| Feb 25, 2021

The issues - from addiction itself to the flawed incentives at institutions that might prevent it - demand a more expansive treatment.

| Feb 25, 2021

Filmmaker Nicholas Jarecki deploys a multi-narrative structure, a la Steven Soderbergh's "Traffic," for his well-intended epic on the American opioid epidemic. It doesn't work.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 25, 2021

It feels like research dressed as a drama.

| Feb 24, 2021

"Crisis" is something of a horror film, and not in a good way.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 23, 2021

Well-meaning but underwhelming.

| Feb 22, 2021

Time and again, the film shortchanges the human elements of its stories for drug stats that can be Googled in a matter of seconds.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 22, 2021

Jarecki's tendency to streamline subplots doesn't make "Crisis" any less engaging, giving everything a pop, Michael Crichton-esque feel.

| Feb 22, 2021