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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 12 Dec 2013

Director Lucy Walker's chronicle of how Pearce, his family and his friends grapple with their altered reality results in one of the year's…

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By Kimber Myers (423) for The Playlist (3,871) on 11 Dec 2013

The Crash Reel can never be accused of being dry or boring, but Walker brings an energetic style that also complements its subject…

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By John Teti (1) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Dec 2013

The film also applies a deft touch as it addresses the morality of violent sports, like snowboarding and football, that entertain the many…

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By Jordan Adler (82) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 11 Dec 2013

The Crash Reel is an insightful and deeply affecting look at the hazardous world of extreme sports, through the lens of ill-fated snowboarder…

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By Inkoo Kang (374) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Dec 2013

Walker never has Pearce explain why he wants to return the lifts, and he never has to. The heights speak for themselves…

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By Sam Adams (514) for Time Out (7,510) on 10 Dec 2013

With its high-energy music and graffiti-style graphics, The Crash Reel plays like the slick promos NBC uses to repackage every Olympian’s…

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By Chris Barsanti (896) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 10 Dec 2013

The Crash Reel is too smart a film to present any easy answers, but while Walker is careful to record the prices paid by Pearce...she doesn't…

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By Andrew Lapin (196) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 09 Dec 2013

Walker edits with an eye for poeticism, and at times her choices are unbearably painful…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Dec 2013

It compellingly captures a family wrestling mightily with the riddles and contradictions of a culture that promotes achievement at all costs…

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By Tara Brady (805) for Irish Times (1,391) on 10 Oct 2013

With no miraculous recovery to fall back on, the story simply has nowhere to go. And that's precisely the point…

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By Charlotte O'sullivan (637) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 03 Oct 2013

As thrilling as Rush, but with a very different kind of happy ending…

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By Sophie Monks Kaufman (221) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 02 Oct 2013

The charm of director Lucy Walker's creation is she allows the sport that elevated Pearce to take the audience on a ride too…

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By Katherine Mclaughlin (276) for ViewLondon (2,339) on 02 Oct 2013

An inspiring and compelling documentary about the risks of extreme sports with a focus on snowboarder Kevin Pearce…

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By Nigel Andrews (1,359) for Financial Times (1,822) on 02 Oct 2013

The film captures the horror and danger and the druggy thrill…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 02 Oct 2013

Operating on several levels, this engaging documentary holds our attention with eye-opening information and pulse-quickening action, but what…

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By Trevor Johnston (624) for Time Out London (344) on 30 Sep 2013

Don’t be put off by the jock-ish ‘extreme sports’ subject matter, this is an insightful, deeply affecting journey of emotional discovery…

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By Tom Dawson (244) for The List (2,018) on 30 Sep 2013

Assembled from a plethora of visual sources, including the title footage, this impressively edited and dynamically scored film successfully…

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By David Hinckley (25) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 13 Aug 2013

What complicates and deepens Crash Reel, though, is that Walker doesn’t simply wag her finger like Mom telling you not to run with scissors…

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By Dorothy Rabinowitz (15) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 11 Jul 2013

In its picture of the family constellation lies all of the film's strength, all testimony to its ambition, its capacity to fascinate with a…

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By Robert Abele (1,309) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 03 Jul 2013

The Crash Reel asks pointed questions about hazard, reward and consequence, forcing us to look anew at the rush attached to so many high-stakes…

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