Crush
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: April 3, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
37
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
14
Negative:
10
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
There aren't many movies that deal with middle-aged women, and this one manages to do so with a fair amount of wit and heart. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneLoren King
A surprising and delightful romantic take on modern women. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Crush is an Aga romance crossed with modern retro-feminist soft porn, in which liberated women discuss lust as if it were a topic and not a fact. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeLoren King
MacDowell offers an engaging portrait of a complex woman who has survived life's slings and arrows. It makes Crush an affecting take on modern women. Read full review
70
TimeRichard Corliss
The film bubbles with acid wit, in the tradition of Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges, while simmering with the ache of lust pursued and love lost. Read full review
63
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
What Crush lacks in substance and originality, it makes up for with sheer likability. Read full review
60
VarietyDerek Elley
Some fine screen chemistry between its leads and a spikey, offhandedly comic script by young writer-director John McKay put spice into Crush. Read full review
58
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
It's the chemistry between the women and the droll scene-stealing wit and wolfish pessimism of Anna Chancellor that makes this "Two Weddings and a Funeral" fun. Read full review
50
New York PostLou Lumenick
With heavy emphasis on cliché and stereotype, has at least four false endings -- and drags on for nearly two hours -- before it finally contrives to reunite its sitcomish pals for a last drink together. Read full review
50
USA TodayMike Clark
After "Chocolat" and this, how about a moratorium on candy-centered comedies? Read full review
50
Film ThreatTim Merrill
There are pleasures to be had early on in Crush, but they get fewer and farther between. Nice while it lasts, the glow wears off all too quickly. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Despite some jaunty performances and its pretty Cotswolds locale, the film, in the end, is hardly a pleasure at all. Read full review
50
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Andie MacDowell bursts out of her good-girl cocoon in Crush to become a bright, bad butterfly: drinking, smoking, flirting with Ecstasy, having moaning sex on a tombstone just minutes after the funeral of a friend. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
MacDowell, Staunton and Chancellor are terrific, tearing into their juicy roles and reveling in first-time feature writer-director Jim McKay's sharp-tongued dialogue. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
In the future, as recorded in the bible of British cinema, it will be written that "Four Weddings and a Funeral" begat "The Full Monty" which begat "Billy Elliot" which begat way too many pale imitations struggling to peddle the same brand of sloppy sentimentality. Amen. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Crush is that strange mixed bag -- an otherwise wretched movie in which an actress gets to do some of her best work. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
The tragedy that separates the Good Crush from the Bad Crush is a cleaver that severs the film's relationship with reality.
50
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
For women who smoke and drink like fiends, the trio of pre-owned babes in this weirdly rotten femme-porn romance have awfully good, unwrinkled complexions. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
The script's foolish contrivances crush its content.
40
The New York TimesDave Kehr
The sudden, radical change of tone is something far beyond Mr. McKay's nascent abilities as a filmmaker, and Crush never really rights itself. Read full review
38
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
Crush is the kind of movie that gives friendship a bad name.
30
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
The kind of movie that gives "chick flicks" a bad reputation. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
Begins as a captivating romantic comedy and then, at the very moment it's most involving, takes a wholly gratuitous and disastrous swerve and just keeps on going from bad to worse. Read full review
20
L.A. WeeklyManohla Dargis
What’s striking about John McKay's feature debut is how much contempt toward his female characters the writer-director manages to pack into 115 minutes. Read full review
20
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
Oddly off-balance, estrogen-powered dramedy. Read full review
20
New Times (L.A.)Bill Gallo
Loquacious and dreary piece of business. Read full review
20
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
Never good, Crush takes a turn for the worse when it takes a turn for the serious. Its attempt to drop cartoon comedy for cartoon tragedy essentially thrusts the characters from Cathy into the panels of Mary Worth. Read full review
10
Washington PostStephen Hunter
It's about women, but as written and directed by a man, it appears to make no emotional sense at all. It treats women like idiots. Read full review
0
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
Manipulative tragedy, muddled motivations, incongruous reconciliations, deranged cuteness, all of it directed with a tin ear and laden with a score that evokes the experience of a conditioned lab rat. Read full review
0
SalonStephanie Zacharek
The most depressing movie I've seen all year; in fact, I'm hard-pressed to name a movie aimed specifically at women that has ever made me feel as insulted and disgusted. Read full review
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