While the film has its flaws, certainly it deserved better than to debut on the shelves of Blockbuster.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 4, 2023

This will certainly struggle to find an audience.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 28, 2020

These stories might seem too coincidental and even preposterous. It wouldn't have mattered had they been well-told.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 10, 2018

It's all too conventional, a prosaic melodrama composed of characters who turn out to be strictly good or evil. We already know that immigrants are exploited. Crossing Over tries to tell us that once again, while compounding the offence.

| Jan 2, 2018

While Mr. Kramer does seem to believe in the decency of his characters, their individual stories eventually become so far-fetched that, in the end, they are virtually indistinguishable from Hollywood baloney.

| Oct 7, 2015

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

Multicultural hot pot boils over into farce.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 31, 2010

The film manages to sustain a general air of dull preachiness without ever having much to say for itself.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 4, 2009

It's compassionate, decent-minded and highly watchable, but as angry, heavy-handed and overemphatic as a rubber stamp crashing down on an immigration form.

| Aug 4, 2009

Being over-stuffed and heavy-handed are not even Crossing Over's biggest problems. That dubious honour goes to an absolute failure to address its nominal subject-matter in any meaningful way.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 31, 2009

Any one of these stories, if properly fleshed out and shorn of contrivance, would have made for a perfectly serviceable film. Instead, we have lots of hysterical little bits of nothing much.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 31, 2009

While the film certainly has some viable, provocative points to make about the US's attitudes to migrants and the labyrinthine horrors of getting citizenship, it lacks the subtlety and eloquence it really needs to succeed.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 31, 2009

For anyone who felt that Crash was too subtle and self-effacing, I recommend Crossing Over, a multi-stranded, heavy handed exploration of the issues surrounding immigration and US citizenship.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2009

Crass, contrived, tackily salacious and politically loaded in the most insidious way, this dodgy piece of nonsense purports to be an ensemble, multi-stranded drama in the style of Traffic or Crash.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 31, 2009

The whole exercise feels exploitative.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 31, 2009

Well-acted but increasingly either melodramatic or just plain dull.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 31, 2009

Crossing Over builds purposefully before derailing completely in its finale.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 31, 2009

Although it has moments of poignancy, his sledgehammer approach is sometimes off-putting and risible.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2009

Hampered by wayward direction and a skin-deep script, this won't be following Crash to the Academy podium. If you loved Haggis' Oscar victor, you might squeeze an iota of enlightenment out of Kramer's copycat melodrama.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 31, 2009