Ultimately, Crash succeeds in spite of itself. Its color war starts to feel obvious and schematic. Its coincidences and cliches become like a pileup on the 405 freeway, but there it is -- you find yourself rubbernecking and can't manage to look away. Full Review

Rating: 4/5 -- It's told with a searing panache that comes to a boil as characters are forced to confront their own prejudices. Full Review

Issues are raised and confronted head-on and prejudices are revealed simultaneously as the movie deftly assembles its intricately plotted narrative jigsaw. Full Review

Crash is difficult to watch because of the moral chaos it portrays, but it is best film I have seen in a long time. Full Review

[Crash] is familiar enough that it slips easily into our film-watching faculty without any fuss, yet [Haggis'] handling of it -- his muscular belief in what he is doing -- makes us hope that his next screenplay will be a bit less safe. Full Review

Thought provoking, compelling, intelligent, coherently crafted and reality based and laced. Look for Paul Haggis and his cast of characters to be on everyone's lips come Oscar 2006. Full Review

Rating: 3/5 -- The script is clever, the racial theme is worthy of Newsnight, and the editing just sublime. Full Review