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Crossing Over
MGM, The Weinstein Company
MPAA RATING: R for pervasive language, some strong violence and sexuality/nudity
Starring
Harrison Ford,
Jim Sturgess,
Ashley Judd,
Alicia Braga,
Alice Eve,
and
Ray Liotta
The US offers hope—but that often comes at a price. Many can earn citizenship legally through a lengthy bureaucratic process, but others find themselves out of luck in a country where virtually anything can be bought. Sex, violence and betrayal become their currency. Some wait in line for permission to enter the U.S. while others take matters into their own hands. (The Weinstein Company)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Wayne Kramer
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Wayne Kramer
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| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: February 27, 2009
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| RUNNING TIME: |
140 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
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67
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Crossing Over is so eager to go for the emotional jugular that it never quite forges an enlightening point of view.
67
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Vadim Rizov
Tied together with endless, flattening shots of L.A.’s cloverleaf freeways, Crossing Over is often simplistic and occasionally lugubrious, but it's rarely boring.
63
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
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.
63
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
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."
50
USA Today
Claudia Puig
There is undoubtedly a good movie in the varied experiences of American newcomers. But it would need to involve sagas more urgent and more original.
50
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
A disappointing picture that suffers from all manner of ills: Both the direction and the dialogue are stiff and awkward, and Kramer -- who also wrote the script -- crams too many not-believable-enough subplots into the movie's "Crash"-style construction. Yet Crossing Over is an interesting failure.
50
Premiere
Staff (Not credited)
The controversial subject matter will undoubtedly hit close to home for many people, but a few genuinely uncomfortable scenes will either provoke the audience into serious thought or just cause them to leave the theater angry.
40
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
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.
40
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
Writer-director Wayne Kramer adds what could be called mainstream threads to his messy script, but the result is simplistic across the board.
38
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Here comes Wayne Kramer's Crossing Over, a bid to create the "Crash" of illegal-immigration dramas.
30
Village Voice
Scott Foundas
And so it goes, with Kramer--who doesn't really seem to like people very much--failing to muster even the superficial empathy the makers of the similarly programmatic "The Visitor" and "Rendition" showed toward their own cardboard-cutout imperiled illegals.
30
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
There are a bunch of other clunky immigrant subplots (the Jews get a comic one, the Turks a scary one), but it isn't until the massacre–cum–civics tutorial in the liquor store that Crossing Over crosses into the mythic realm of camp. What a waste. I still say it's better than "Crash," though.
30
The Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Farber
The film plays like a garish melodrama that reproduces the most ham-fisted, polemical aspects of "Crash."
30
Variety
Todd McCarthy
The way the picture dwells almost exclusively on cinematically exploitable elements -- gangbanger crime, prostitution, honor killing, terrorism paranoia -- gives it a sordid patina that even the classy, able thesps can't offset.
20
Slate
Dana Stevens
All of its plot threads are equally dreadworthy.
10
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Forced, heavy-handed and overdone, it's a pretend serious film that offers crass manipulation in the place where honesty is supposed to be.
10
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Wayne Kramer's interlocking saga of immigration in 21st-century America definitely crosses over, from workaday mediocrity to distinctive dreadfulness.
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