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By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Dallas Observer (1,128) on 29 Dec 2013

Cult auteur David Cronenberg crashes and burns--his talent, that is--in Crash, a vain attempt at a techno-age Persona…

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By Desson Thomson (1,673) for Washington Post (9,851) on 21 Aug 2013

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…

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By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 17 Apr 2012

Crash has a couple of concepts which are, admittedly, fascinating and original, but not a whole lot more…

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By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 06 Dec 2011

Adapted from J.G…

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By Christopher Sharrett (1) for USA Today (4,117) on 21 Feb 2009

Crash seems incredibly prescient, yet rather naive…

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By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Aug 2007

Compared with the novel, the movie might seem predictable. But compared with other movies, it stands alone…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 02 Jul 2007

For all the director's visual flair, his trademark flashes of gallows humor and his few good moments, there's never a sense that he's made…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 15 Apr 2007

Cronenberg has made a movie that is pornographic in form, but not in result…

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By Kim Newman (791) for Empire (3,446) on 15 Apr 2006

However, as with Dead Ringers, Cronenberg approaches a touchy concept with a mixture of icy tact and cinematic daring, always informing the…

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By Richard Corliss (1,032) for Time (1,811) on 14 Mar 2003

An intellectual and a sensualist, Cronenberg graces Crash with philosophical musings, acres of pretty flesh and even more penis talk than on…

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By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 14 Jun 2002

David Cronenberg's movie is a chilly meditation on this theme, carrying some cinematic interest but surprisingly dull given the story's outrageous…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for Variety (12,700) on 21 Dec 2001

Cronenberg is a master of creating and sustaining a mood of insinuating cool and dark allure, but while the director remains firmly behind…

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By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 20 Nov 2001

You may well hate Crash, but if intensity is what you seek in a darkened theatre, you'll hate missing it even more…

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By Barbara Shulgasser (553) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 17 Sep 2001

Cronenberg has said that he made the film to find out why he was making it. You may watch it for the same reason…

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By Robin Dougherty (9) for Salon (312) on 04 Jul 2001

The astonishing thing, however, is how pleasantly hypnotic the film is -- despite the fact that its subject is confined to peculiarly gruesome sex…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 18 Jul 2000

The only entertainment value is in imagining Turner's apoplexy when he watched Spader having sex with Rosanna Arquette's leg wound…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 20 Jan 1999

Crash is still creepy, still menacing, still hypnotic, and it is still dedicated, in its freaky way, to the ideal of eroticism, to just drifting…

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By Luc Sante (1) for Slate (2,081) on 02 May 1998

For a filmmaker who in Videodrome and Dead Ringers so elegantly broached the unspeakable, Cronenberg has here made a picture that is all surface…

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By Elvis Mitchell (489) for The New York Times (9,847) on 07 Jan 1998

The Crash characters sleepwalk through this story in a state of futuristic numbness, seeking extreme forms of sensation because familiar feelings…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 20 Oct 1997

The filmmaking here is so glacially paced (the final script was only 62 pages for a 100-minute film) and enervating that boredom is the most…

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Film critics gave Crash (1996) an average score of 57%, indicating generally mixed reviews.

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