Crash
Starz | Release Date: October 17, 2008
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
8
Negative:
7
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
NewsdayVerne Gay
Season 1 Review: Gritty, jarring, profane and smartly produced. Read full review
70
Kansas City StarAaron Barnhart
Season 1 Review: Thanks to the fact that Starz is pay cable and can say and show pretty much whatever it wants, this show ramps up the dramatic tension quickly and effectively. Read full review
70
The New York TimesGinia Bellafante
Season 1 Review: The show, the first original drama series made for Starz, is hardly the most original depiction of Los Angeles, but Crash has a noirish appeal, and ambitions to tell a big story. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyRobert Abele
Season 1 Review: I’ll come back to Crash the TV show, but for now, the acting doesn’t exactly induce gaper’s block. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMatt Roush
Season 1 Review: Crash doesn't burn so much as it simmers. It's provocative and intriguing, but leaves you wondering if the whole setup might not simply work better as a movie. Read full review
50
Baltimore SunDavid Zurawik
Season 1 Review: Not surprisingly, Crash, the TV series, does not measure up very well against the film in terms of atmosphere and acting. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan
Season 1 Review: The show clearly wants to say something complicated about race and class in Los Angeles, but a number of the situations and characters on the show feel like situations and people we’ve seen before (starting with the movie that lends the series its name). Read full review
40
Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
Season 1 Review: It's an hour of unpleasant yet bland people occasionally bumping into each other and saying racially provocative things. Read full review
40
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: They're a largely unlikable lot of crooked cops, adulterers and Hopper's long-winded, nutso music mogul. It's one thing to spend a movie with these characters, but it's quite another to tune in for 13 weeks. Read full review
40
PopMattersCynthia Fuchs
Season 1 Review: At once schematic and preachy, it never indicates the stakes--either for its “diverse” players or for you. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)John Leonard
Season 1 Review: Although slickly made with a nod to noir between sermonettes, Crash features far too much Dennis Hopper as a drug-addled music producer. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterRay Richmond
Season 1 Review: The racial fire is oddly muted, the characters disturbingly undefined, the interaction frustratingly nondescript. The truth is, I'm not really sure what this show is supposed to be other than chaotic and boorish Read full review
30
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
Season 1 Review: A series that's as lead-footed as the original. But much, much longer. Read full review
30
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: Crash tries too hard, and fails hard too. Read full review
30
SalonHeather Havrilesky
Season 1 Review: The new drama Crash struggles mightily to appear slick and sophisticated and special, but the whole elaborate mess is just as leaden and obvious as the Oscar-winning movie upon which it's based. Read full review
25
Entertainment WeeklyLeah Greenblatt
Season 1 Review: The film's episodic, interwoven tales of race relations in L.A. become a swampy mess of ludicrous dialogue, disconnected characters, and offensively stupid plotting. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman
Season 1 Review: Sure, it's got some ethically challenged cops, some overt racism, some faux hot sex and what looks to be a lot of money spent on filming on the streets of Los Angeles, but the writing is surprisingly nondescript, the acting rudimentary and the first hour ends with nothing much in the way of movement. Read full review
20
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: Messy at best, the two-episode premiere suffers from wildly uneven performances, beginning with Dennis Hopper at his manic worst. Read full review
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