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Dominican Rep. Crossing Over
3,827
Drama
Crossing Over is a multi-character canvas about immigrants of different nationalities struggling to achieve legal status in Los Angeles... Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. In Crossing Over, writer-director Wayne Kramer explores the allure of the ... [+]
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United States |
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"Grossly exploitative (...) [It delivers its] sanctimony with less hand-wringing and more fist-shaking, complete with lurid violence and, for no real narrative reason, periodically bared female flesh" | NEG |
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United States |
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"Some of these stories are fascinating and some are heartbreaking" | POS |
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United States |
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"'Crossing Over' is so eager to go for the emotional jugular that it never quite forges an enlightening point of view" | NEU |
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United States |
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"Harrison Ford - in his best role in years - and Cliff Curtis are the main reasons to see the film" | POS |
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United States |
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"'Crossing Over' is often simplistic and occasionally lugubrious, but it's rarely boring" | NEU |
United Kingdom |
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"Being over-stuffed and heavy-handed are not even 'Crossing Over’s' biggest problems. That dubious honour goes to an absolute failure to address its nominal subject-matter in any meaningful way" | NEG |
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United States |
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"The film plays like a garish melodrama that reproduces the most ham-fisted, polemical aspects of 'Crash.'" | NEG |
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