Crash
Fine Line Features | Release Date: March 21, 1997 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
53
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
8
Negative:
5

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
EmpireKim Newman
However, as with Dead Ringers, Cronenberg approaches a touchy concept with a mixture of icy tact and cinematic daring, always informing the wilfully perverse material with a penetrating intelligence and (almost subliminally) very black wit. Read full review
100
USA TodayChristopher Sharrett
Crash seems incredibly prescient, yet rather naive. The film is a stunning document of our alienated civilization, all the more compelling with its dolorous, almost liturgical tones. Read full review
90
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Compared with the novel, the movie might seem predictable. But compared with other movies, it stands alone. Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Cronenberg has made a movie that is pornographic in form, but not in result. Read full review
88
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
You may well hate Crash, but if intensity is what you seek in a darkened theatre, you'll hate missing it even more. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter Bradshaw
Crash is still creepy, still menacing, still hypnotic, and it is still dedicated, in its freaky way, to the ideal of eroticism, to just drifting from erotic scene to erotic scene without much need for story. But Crash is no longer so contemporary. [4K re-release] Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
I'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. Read full review
70
SalonRobin Dougherty
The astonishing thing, however, is how pleasantly hypnotic the film is -- despite the fact that its subject is confined to peculiarly gruesome sex. Read full review
70
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Adapted from J.G. Ballard's cult novel, a dispassionate exegesis of warped desire, Cronenberg's movie is suitably cold, cold, cold: proof positive that movies about sex aren't always sexy movies, at least by conventional standards. Read full review
70
NewsweekJack Kroll
Crash has no plot to speak of. It's a cinematic tone poem of collisions and coitus. Read full review
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