Weekend Movie Forecast: Crossing Over, An American Affair

In Crossing Over, Harrison Ford plays an immigration agent who manages raids on factories to round up illegal immigrants. During one such operation he's unexpectedly moved by a young Mexican woman's pleas for help to recover her son, and he ends up helping her in a risky border-crossing mission.

NY Mag's David Edelstein calls it "an L.A.-based ensemble social-problem melodrama for people who thought Crash was a bit too subtle... The most memorable scene is also among the most maladroit ever committed to film, a liquor-store robbery that begins with people getting splattered over the walls and builds to an earnest dialogue about the 'sublime promise' on the faces of immigrants about to take the oath of citizenship. The scene is a career-killer. The whole movie is, in a way... What a waste. I still say it’s better than Crash, though." Of course, that's not saying very much at all.