Crush

There aren't many movies that deal with middle-aged women, and this one manages to do so with a fair amount of wit and heart.

What Crush lacks in substance and originality, it makes up for with sheer likability.

Crush is that strange mixed bag -- an otherwise wretched movie in which an actress gets to do some of her best work.

There are pleasures to be had early on in Crush, but they get fewer and farther between. Nice while it lasts, the glow wears off all too quickly.

The script's foolish contrivances crush its content.

Loquacious and dreary piece of business.

Manipulative tragedy, muddled motivations, incongruous reconciliations, deranged cuteness, all of it directed with a tin ear and laden with a score that evokes the experience of a conditioned lab rat.