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Title: Holy Crashing Crappiness Batman.
Review: I can't believe this just won Best Picture. I had the urge to burn it after watching it last fall (since someone left it at my house). It is a maudlin, overbearing beast of a "race picture." I couldn't agree more with the review that recommends audiences to "Do the Right Thing" instead. "Crash" is overblown, didactic, convoluted, and humorless. Matt Dillon gives a decent performance. Terrance Howard is ok as a frustrated, seething executive. Thandie Newton is his petulant wife. Sorry to be so harsh, but how could that other recent LA movie (albeit from 2004) Michael Mann's "Collateral" go unawarded next to the burning wreckage that is "Crash?" I just don't get it.
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