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Metascore
18 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100USA TodayMike ClarkUSA TodayMike ClarkCold and cut to the bone, the film is a primer in screen virtuosity. Standard action film clichés, like a face getting hit with a chair, get turned inside out; both film and actors somehow manage to seem realistic and stylized at the same time. [21 Sept 1990, Life, p.6D]
- 100The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottA masterpiece, but of a unique kind... A gorgeously filmed, supremely well-acted, intricately written film noir about now.
- 83Entertainment WeeklyEntertainment WeeklyIf, however, you're looking for compelling characters, all the lights are blazing here but nobody's at home.
- 80Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonCrossing should be watched not because it's their finest achievement (that's still to come), but because the brothers are keeping things refreshingly different and building a career, their minds still very much fixed on originality.
- 80TimeRichard CorlissTimeRichard CorlissThe Coens are artists too, and their cool dazzler is an elegy to a day when Hollywood could locate moral gravity in a genre film for grownups. [24 Sept 1990, p.83]
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertWhat it doesn't have is a narrative magnet to pull us through - a story line that makes us really care what happens, aside from the elegant but mechanical manipulations of the plot.
- 60Los Angeles TimesSheila BensonLos Angeles TimesSheila BensonHeart may be what the movie needs most, but a bit of clarity wouldn't hurt either. Even here in gangsterland, where random characters are cherished and non sequiturs are considered wisecracks, there is a difference between complications and impenetrability, and this plot is a bloody thicket.. [5 Oct 1990, Calendar, p.F-10]
- 50San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleAn elegant-looking picture, carefully made and beautifully put together, but when the gloss wears off, you're left with an experience that doesn’t quite satisfy. [5 Oct 1990, Daily Datebook, E10]
- 40Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThe double crosses are so intricate and the cynicism so enveloping that it becomes increasingly difficult to care about the characters
- 0The New RepublicStanley KauffmannThe New RepublicStanley KauffmannA lifeless, tedious picture... A complete dud. [29 Oct 1990, p.26]