From the desk of The Movie Snob:

Crash (B). The great Don Cheadle heads up a huge ensemble cast in this drama about race relations in present-day Los Angeles. Characters' paths intersect randomly and unpredictably over roughly a two-day period, and racial prejudice taints almost all of their dealings with each other. The director does a good job of keeping the viewer off-balance by creating scenes that seem certain to end up one way and then turning out surprisingly differently. But this can be a weakness too, as some of the surprise resolutions don't ring quite true. And I am not at all sure what the "message" of the movie is supposed to be, if it has one. As near as I can figure, it is that bad (i.e., racist) people sometimes do good deeds, and that good people (i.e., people who try not to be racist) sometimes make terrible mistakes despite their good intentions. It's not a great movie, but I definitely think it's worth seeing.