Review: ‘Crossing Over’ tackles immigration -- badly
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Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan reviews a new movie, ‘Crossing Over,’ that deals with the issue of immigration.
‘Crossing Over’ will make you weep, but not for the reasons its makers intended. Forced, heavy-handed and overdone, it’s a pretend serious film that offers crass manipulation in the place where honesty is supposed to be, writes Turan. Read the full review here.
And for more about immigration in the movies, see this report from last year by Reed Johnson.
-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City