![]() It appeared on a handful of other major lists too: Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, Time, the Washington Post, LA Weekly. The movie, an intricate, message-first melodrama of racial and social animus set in contemporary Los Angeles, was Ebert’s number one pick of the year. ![]() The line comes not from his (famous? infamous?) four-star review of Paul Haggis’s Crash, but rather from a follow-up on the movie written months later in response to fellow critics-a good number of whom had already been talking a little too much shit about the film, months before a surprised Jack Nicholson announced it as 2006’s best-picture winner and launched Crash-hating as a competitive sport. ![]() “I believe that occasionally a film comes along that can have an influence for the better, and maybe even change us a little,” wrote the late Roger Ebert in 2006.
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