
Eugene is an extraordinary talent in classic guitar, but he dreams of being a famous Blues guitarist. So he investigates to find a storied lost song. He asks the legendary Blues musician Willie Brown to help him, but Willie demands to free him from the old-people's prison first and to really learn the blues on the way to its origin: Mississippi Delta. Eugene doesn't know yet about Willie's deal with the devil, that he now wants to revoke.... (Full plot summary below)
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Eugene is an extraordinary talent in classic guitar, but he dreams of being a famous Blues guitarist. So he investigates to find a storied lost song. He asks the legendary Blues musician Willie Brown to help him, but Willie demands to free him from the old-people's prison first and to really learn the blues on the way to its origin: Mississippi Delta. Eugene doesn't know yet about Willie's deal with the devil, that he now wants to revoke.
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| Los Angeles TimesSheila BensonCrossroads needs a leap of faith to swallow it whole, to buy its Faust-like premise of a musician's pact with the devil played against the realism of a contemporary road movie, but director Walter Hill lays out reasons enough to make us want to make that leap. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumNot only makes excellent use of the singer's sweetly coltish acting abilities, but it also promotes a standardized set of sturdy values with none of Mariah Carey's desperate ''Glitter,'' or any of Mandy Moore's gummy pap in ''A Walk to Remember.'' |
| Chicago TribuneGene SiskelUnfortunately, the authentic music is betrayed by the final guitar competition, a kind of Karate Kid cacophony between Eugene and the devil's favorite, a punk rocker, in which souls are saved, but Mr. Cooder may have jeopardized his own. |
| The New York TimesStephen HoldenEverything she (Spears) does seems diluted and secondhand and is never transformed into something original or indelibly self-expressive. |
| New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanHere's what Crossroads does not have: Cohesive direction from Tamra Davis, intelligent dialogue, a comprehensible plot. |
| Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanAdults will wish the movie were less simplistic, obvious, clumsily plotted and shallowly characterized. But what are adults doing in the theater at all? |
| Chicago TribuneRobert K. ElderSpears delivers a performance with the same sincerity she invests into a Pepsi commercial, only this film contains twice the sugary calories. |
| New Times (L.A.)Luke Y. ThompsonHighbrow self-appointed guardians of culture need not apply, but those who loved "Cool as Ice" have at last found a worthy follow-up. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyMarks the emergence of a talented young actress. Not Britney -- who has the amateur's tendency to stand looking awkward after delivering her lines -- but Manning (Crazy/Beautiful), who plays Mimi with the gusto of a young Holly Hunter. Though she has little competition here, when she's on the screen she pretty much owns it. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleFascinating in its own strange way, not as entertainment but as a cultural document. |