Throughout the film's three interconnected stories, Jim O'Hanlon favors the blunt, maudlin manipulations of Crash.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein
It’s six or so characters in search of a meaningful movie.
While the film initially exercises commendable restraint in braiding its separate narratives, its second half grows increasingly reliant on pat connections and coincidences.
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
The complete jigsaw doesn’t fit together, hampered by plot implausibilities and unrealities.
The actors are fine, but the material doesn’t give their talents much room to stretch.
The Telegraph by Robbie Collin
Intertwining, Altman-esque social tapestries are all well and good, but the connections between characters should ideally run a little deeper than having them occasionally stroll past each other in the street.
The Hollywood Reporter by Sheri Linden
Though there’s clearly a compassionate impulse behind Leon F. Butler’s class-conscious screenplay, it rapidly devolves into implausible melodrama.