Crossing Over
Weinstein Company, The | Release Date: February 27, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
38
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
15
Negative:
10
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
New York PostLou Lumenick
Here comes Wayne Kramer's Crossing Over, a bid to create the "Crash" of illegal-immigration dramas. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
There are a bunch of other clunky immigrant subplots (the Jews get a comic one, the Turks a scary one), but it isn't until the massacre–cum–civics tutorial in the liquor store that Crossing Over crosses into the mythic realm of camp. What a waste. I still say it's better than "Crash," though. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterStephen Farber
The film plays like a garish melodrama that reproduces the most ham-fisted, polemical aspects of "Crash." Read full review
30
VarietyTodd McCarthy
The way the picture dwells almost exclusively on cinematically exploitable elements -- gangbanger crime, prostitution, honor killing, terrorism paranoia -- gives it a sordid patina that even the classy, able thesps can't offset. Read full review
30
Village VoiceScott Foundas
And so it goes, with Kramer--who doesn't really seem to like people very much--failing to muster even the superficial empathy the makers of the similarly programmatic "The Visitor" and "Rendition" showed toward their own cardboard-cutout imperiled illegals. Read full review
30
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
As Crossing Over makes its patronizing points, by way of two-dimensional characters and billboarded plot points, it recalls other, better movies that dealt with the same subjects far more deftly. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
A mess. Read full review
20
SlateDana Stevens
All of its plot threads are equally dreadworthy. Read full review
10
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
Forced, heavy-handed and overdone, it's a pretend serious film that offers crass manipulation in the place where honesty is supposed to be. Read full review
10
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Wayne Kramer's interlocking saga of immigration in 21st-century America definitely crosses over, from workaday mediocrity to distinctive dreadfulness. Read full review
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