Crossing Over (2009) Critic Reviews
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Based upon 15 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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If Crossing Over is less self-congratulatory than "Crash" about confronting its designated problem, it's just as inept at dramatizing the complex ways that problem unites and divides us. Here every cause is something you can wear around your neck.Read the full review
Some of these stories are fascinating and some are heartbreaking, but together they seem too contrived.Read the full review
Crossing Over is so eager to go for the emotional jugular that it never quite forges an enlightening point of view.Read the full review
Forced, heavy-handed and overdone, it's a pretend serious film that offers crass manipulation in the place where honesty is supposed to be.Read the full review
Enough things in Crossing Over work to keep the film from becoming a bore, but this is a definite step down from Kramer's past efforts, "The Cooler" and "Running Scared."Read the full review
Kramer takes on a hot, unwieldy topic in Crossing Over -- the dream that immigrants have of U.S. citizenship and the nightmare of achieving it, especially with shortcuts. I'm sure Kramer will be picked to pieces for trying something while Hollywood crap climbs the box office ladder. There are all kinds of nightmares.Read the full review
A mess.Read the full review
All of its plot threads are equally dreadworthy.Read the full review
The film plays like a garish melodrama that reproduces the most ham-fisted, polemical aspects of "Crash."Read the full review
If Mr. Kramer's outrage felt honest, his film would be easier to respect. But time and again, he undermines his own righteousness by pumping up the violence and stripping down his talent.Read the full review
