Another rich, sheltered person lectures us about race!

Rating: 1/10 (2 June 2005)

Pretentious, maudlin, and tedious.
Be careful, critics will always shower praise on a movie that "tackles the tough issues." If I hear another critic call this movie "brave," I'm going to claw my eyes out. It's not brave to sit in your mansion in Santa Monica and write about what a racist hellhole the rest of Los Angeles is. This movie is utterly phony, and its story is ridiculously contrived. Sure, good actors get to yell, and cry, and gnash their teeth, but their agents should really protect them from this kind of shrill, pedantic junk. Crash makes Magnolia look like a masterpiece.
And we, the people of Los Angeles, should sue the filmmakers for their facile portrayal of the city.