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Title: Best Picture? Who's To Say
Review: I won't even bother to jump into the fray in debating whether "Crash" was a worthy winner of the Best Picture Oscar because I didn't see "Brokeback Mountain". For me the best films last year were in no particular order "Walk the Line", "Cinderella Man", "Batman Begins", "Wedding Crashers", "Sin City", "Kung Fu Hustle", Wallace and Gromit-Curse of the Wererabbit", and "Transporter 2". There's certainly been worse choices for Best Picture with 2004's Paul Haggis scripted "Million Dollar Baby" coming to mind. The central premise of "Crash" which involves the convergence of persons of different socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds is not the most original of concepts. To the film's credit it is crisply directed and expertly plotted. The ensemble cast is uniformly excellent. I saw this film in the theatre and was engaged but not blown away. I will say that after seeing it on DVD it does hold up to repeat viewings. In conclusion I've seen better but you could do worse.
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