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19 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50Chicago TribuneChicago TribuneThe reason basketball is such a great spectator sport isn't because of its opportunities for razzle-dazzle editing and direction. It's because the game is kinetic enough without all that swoosh/zap/wham business.
- A decent example of Sidekick Cinema: a movie to glance up at from time to time while you download ring tones or text-message your friends.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckWhile director-screenwriter Preston A. Whitmore II's film is to be admired for its proponing the values of a higher education over the dream of a career in the NBA, its dialogue, characterizations and situations rarely transcend the level of cliche.
- 42Entertainment WeeklyEntertainment WeeklyCrossover skimps on court-level pyrotechnics (we get a game in the beginning and, of course, a big game at the end, and that's about it) in favor of dry urban melodrama.
- 40L.A. WeeklyL.A. WeeklyAs they pursue their goals, no movie cliché is left unturned. The streetball scenes offer some nifty trick plays, but the rest of Crossover features poorly dressed sets, cheap-looking costumes and locations, and silly histrionics.
- 38PremierePremiereThe streetball scenes, much like the plot, have a few high points but never hit their stride.
- 38USA TodayClaudia PuigUSA TodayClaudia PuigMuch as they would like it to, basketball can't save the youthful inner-city players here. Nor does the ultra-fast-paced street version of the sport save this movie from predictability and tedium.
- 38New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsSo badly conceived and executed, its good intentions don't help.
- 30VarietyRobert KoehlerVarietyRobert KoehlerOvershadowed by vastly superior sports movies like Invincible and hardly disguising its low-budget sources, pic isn't in any kind of shape for the theatrical leagues.
- 12New York PostNew York PostThe entire movie seems to have about the same budget as a 30-second sneaker commercial. I'm not talking Nike, either. I'm talking a commercial for Steve's Second-Hand Sneaker World and Falafel Emporium that you'd see on NY1 News at 3:08 a.m.