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03/13/09
Crossing Over (2009)
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Reviews Counted:102
Fresh:16
Rotten:86
Average Rating:4.1/10
Consensus: Crossing Over is flagrant and heavy-handed about a situation that deserves more deliberate treatment, and joins its characters with coincidences that strain believability.
Synopsis: The struggle to achieve resident alien status, or gain full-blown citizenship in the United States, provides some thought-provoking material in this feature from director Wayne Kramer(THE COOLER).... [More]
Starring: Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, Ashley Judd, Cliff Curtis
Director: Wayne Kramer
Reviews for Crossing Over
A sanctimonious sack of stupid that wants to do for the subject of immigration reform what "Crash" did for the subject of racism in America and tragically does just that.
03/12/09
Crossing Over gets so wrapped up in its quest for topical resonance that it forgets some of the basic rules of narrative filmmaking.
03/12/09
... feels an awful lot like the multicultural Crash, complete with its crisscrossing stories, heavy ironies and even heavier moralizing.
03/12/09
It's Crossing Over -- or as we call it at my desk, Crash: Special Victims Unit.
03/12/09
Like too many Crash wannabes, Crossing Over gets an A for effort and a C-plus for execution.
03/12/09
The lack of subtlety...makes Crossing Over little more than an overwrought harangue.
03/12/09
The finished product looks as though it was designed to satisfy egos, not viewers.
03/12/09
A responsible message movie wrapped in an irresponsible exploitation flick that cries fire in a crowded theater.
03/12/09
The characters don't relate; they trade expedient expository nuggets, when they're not speechifying. A surfeit of coincidence spoils our empathy. And when a character%u2014any character%u2014says "You doubt the veracity of my heart," you have to doubt the
03/12/09
Crossing Over seems to strain, with too many characters, too many story strands and too much of an effort to cover the bases.
03/12/09
Top CriticThe movie matches nicely with Ford's somnambulistic nonperformance -- they're both pokey, morose and don't really say much at all.
03/10/09
The cast does uniformly fine work, but they and the film as a whole are hampered by Kramer's overreaching, overstuffed script.
03/08/09
In its stories of immigration, Crossing Over raises questions: how far are we willing to bend the rules to get what we desire? What will we risk to uphold our own values?
03/08/09
About as airless and preachy as movies come.
03/06/09
Characters are stretched thin with only the most overstuffed dialogue to express themselves. As a result, the film is airless and petrified.
03/06/09
A well-intentioned but ham-handed exploration of U.S. immigration policies, this movie's message is undermined by its cardboard characters and clunky script.
03/05/09
Writer-director Wayne Kramer gets uniformly terrific performances from a fine cast playing pawns in the game of sex, violence and betrayal that diminishes the noble tradition of naturalized citizenship.
03/04/09
In this contrived illegal-immigration drama, the stereotypical characters and structured story lines keep crossing and bumping into each other.
03/04/09
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.
03/02/09
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