Crossing Over
Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, Ashley Judd
Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immig...( read more
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June 27, 2009A hard-boiled, magnetic, amasing and absorbing drama. An all-star pitch-perfect cast who all deliver powerhouse performances. Harrison Ford has never been better, he gives an incrediable, intense, riveting and passionately charged performance. Ray Liotta is excellent, his best pe... ...( read more )
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June 20, 2009This movie showed the lengths that some people will go to obtain a green card. I think it was Hollywood's way of making us sympathize with families torn apart when one (illegal) member gets deported from the US. And yes..... it did tug at my heart strings a little but I am like ... ...( read more )
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June 10, 2009Wow, this is a movie about illiegal and legal aliens entering the US and the struggles they go through trying to stay here. First of all the cast was wonderful cast. Incredible actors played portait these every day people so convincing it was easy to get lost in the story. I like... ...( read more )
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May 11, 2009"Every day thousands of people illegally cross our borders... only one thing stands in their way. America."
Crossing Over is a multi-character canvas about immigrants of different nationalities struggling to achieve legal status in Los Angeles...
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June 16, 2009I don't know why only 12 % critics liked Crossing Over, to me it was one of the year's best so far. It does basically give the same message as Crash but that doesn't take away from the fact that is still a strong film. I think the scenes involving a young Arab girl being treated ... ...( read more )
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June 30, 2009A pretty engaging little drama that weaves a large group of different people together over the course of its narrative, feeling very similar to Crash, only concerning immigration rather than racism. I kinda hated Crash's 'everyone's a racist' attitude, but this actually drew me i... ...( read more )
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March 13, 2009
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
March 12, 2009
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Crossing Over seems to strain, with too many characters, too many story strands and too much of an effort to cover the bases. full review
March 2, 2009
Kurt Loder, MTV
Harrison Ford barely registers in a misconceived immigration drama. full review
February 28, 2009
Pete Hammond, Hollywood.com
Ignore the other critics. This is an engrossing, thoroughly entertaining movie with great performances from a first-rate ensemble cast. full review
February 27, 2009
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
An interesting failure, a movie that at least strives to be about something, entangling itself with the question of what it means to be an American -- or, more specifically, what it means to deserve t... full review
February 27, 2009
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Trust Kramer, though, to spring surprises with the help of a risk-taking cast. full review
February 26, 2009
Claudia Puig, USA Today
Crossing Over has hurtled into Crash territory, and the smash-up is not a happy collision. full review
February 26, 2009
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
A multi-strand saga whose contrived, inane narrative threads have been stitched together with Frankenstein ungainliness. full review
February 25, 2009
Armond White, The New York Press
This focus on uneasy spiritual and political transformation runs into thematic banality. Although more than a set of patchwork, Crash-like homilies, Crossing Over is almost as didactic. full review
February 23, 2009
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
Crossing Over crosses into the mythic realm of camp. What a waste. I still say it's better than Crash, though. full review
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January 30, 2009A drama that examines immigration and those people who will do whatever it takes to cross the border into the United States.
Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. In "Crossing Over", writer-director Wayne Kramer explores the allure of the American dream, and the reality that immigrants find – and create -- in 21st century L.A.
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