The Crush Critic Reviews

MacDowell offers an engaging portrait of a complex woman who has survived life's slings and arrows. It makes Crush an affecting take on modern women.Read the full review

Crush is an Aga romance crossed with modern retro-feminist soft porn, in which liberated women discuss lust as if it were a topic and not a fact.Read the full review

Some fine screen chemistry between its leads and a spikey, offhandedly comic script by young writer-director John McKay put spice into Crush.Read the full review

After "Chocolat" and this, how about a moratorium on candy-centered comedies?Read the full review

Crush is that strange mixed bag -- an otherwise wretched movie in which an actress gets to do some of her best work.Read the full review

For women who smoke and drink like fiends, the trio of pre-owned babes in this weirdly rotten femme-porn romance have awfully good, unwrinkled complexions.Read the full review

The sudden, radical change of tone is something far beyond Mr. McKay's nascent abilities as a filmmaker, and Crush never really rights itself.Read the full review

The script's foolish contrivances crush its content.Read the full review

Begins as a captivating romantic comedy and then, at the very moment it's most involving, takes a wholly gratuitous and disastrous swerve and just keeps on going from bad to worse.Read the full review