Crossroads 2002

Critics score:
14 / 100

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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: We could have expected a little more human being, and a little less product. Read more

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: Non-Spears fans will remain unmoved and may actually bolt for the exits upon hearing the opening lines to 'I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman.' Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: She's not yet an actress, not quite a singer... Read more

Susan Stark, Detroit News: A film that clearly means to preach exclusively to the converted. Read more

Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: One of the more glaring signs of this movie's servitude to its superstar is the way it skirts around any scenes that might have required genuine acting from Ms. Spears. Read more

Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: The entire 88 minutes of the film translates to a little more than advertisement for Spears' music and endorsements. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: Watching Ms. Spears sing, dance and act can leave you wondering what is meant nowadays by the concept of talent. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I went to Crossroads expecting a glitzy bimbofest and got the bimbos but not the fest. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: An example of shamelessly bad screenwriting, laden with coincidence and cliche and empty characterizations. Read more

Larry Aydlette, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Cliches pile up in Crossroads, but it's harmless, powder-puff fun. Read more

Houston Chronicle: Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Britney has been delivered to the big screen safe and sound, the way we like our 20-year-old superstar girls to travel on the fame freeway. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: [Spears'] persona has been shamelessly worked into a thin fiction by screenwriter Shonda Rhimes, under the characterless direction of Tamra Davis. Read more

Chuck Wilson, L.A. Weekly: Dull, a road-trip movie that's surprisingly short of both adventure and song. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Crossroads adopts such a self-important tone that it's embarrassing. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: The movie is a lumbering load of hokum but ... it's at least watchable. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: It cultivates not the illusion of wholesomeness, since no one's buying it, but the pretense of it. Yet examine the movie's message, and it's pretty insidious. Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: For anyone seeking a movie that captures the utter vapidity of the Britney Spears Experience, with all of her most annoying personal traits and uh-uh-uh vocal tics brought to the fore. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: Oops, she's really done it this time. That chirpy songbird Britney Spears has popped up with more mindless drivel. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: Read more

Jane Dark, Village Voice: The kind of movie that seems like a very extensive trailer for a music video coming soon to Total Request Live. Read more

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Not a music video, not yet a movie, but more like an extended-play advertisement for the Product that is Britney. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: It does wonders to a critic to know that you could be a continuing font of teen and post-teen kitsch for years to come. Read more