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
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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