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23 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumCompared with the novel, the movie might seem predictable. But compared with other movies, it stands alone.
- 88Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertCronenberg has made a movie that is pornographic in form, but not in result.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannSan Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannI'm not quite sure what David Cronenberg is trying to say in Crash, but whatever it is, he deserves a lot of credit for having the nerve to put it on screen and face the consequences.
- 70SalonSalonThe astonishing thing, however, is how pleasantly hypnotic the film is -- despite the fact that its subject is confined to peculiarly gruesome sex.
- 60The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinThe Crash characters sleepwalk through this story in a state of futuristic numbness, seeking extreme forms of sensation because familiar feelings have long since failed them. It's a chilling, ghastly possibility that manages to exert a grim fascination.
- 60Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonCrash doesn't extend beyond its most immediate sensationalism. When the movie does attempt to find a theme, it slams into a brick wall of mumbo-jumbo.
- 60SlateSlateFor a filmmaker who in Videodrome and Dead Ringers so elegantly broached the unspeakable, Cronenberg has here made a picture that is all surface.
- 50ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliCrash has a couple of concepts which are, admittedly, fascinating and original, but not a whole lot more.
- 50San Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserSan Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserCronenberg has said that he made the film to find out why he was making it. You may watch it for the same reason.
- 25Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittDavid Cronenberg's movie is a chilly meditation on this theme, carrying some cinematic interest but surprisingly dull given the story's outrageous subject.