Pawn Shop Chronicles

After crossing over from his cooler films, Kramer runs scarily amok with this schoolboy attempt to emulate Coens and Tarantino within Sin City’s plot structure.  Walker stands out, but Fraser and Dillon can’t even carry a third.  Senseless scripting qualifies this one for nothing but bargain bins and pawn shops.

Crash (2004)

Candy coated look at the intersecting lives of several hundred people in Los Angeles. Melodramatic and carefully constructed to remind to the viewer that racism is terrible. Lives intersect repeatedly, and so on occasion to brilliant editing, performance, and music to form several powerful tear-jerk moments. Better title: Hate Actually.