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- 88Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertCrossroads borrows so freely and is a reminder of so many other movies that it's a little startling, at the end, to realize how effective the movie is and how original it manages to feel despite all the plunderings.
- 80Los Angeles TimesSheila BensonLos 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.
- 75TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineWorking from a screenplay that drew on scriptwriter Fusco's experience as an itinerant young blues man, Hill and cinematographer Bailey perfectly capture the look and feel of the Mississippi Delta, heretofore little seen on film.
- 70Time OutTime OutSeneca is worth watching, Ry Cooder's score is among his best work, and this certainly isn't sequel fodder.
- 63Chicago TribuneGene SiskelChicago TribuneGene SiskelCrossroads doesn't contain most of the common sins of today's youth films: cheap sex, fast cars and food fights. But you can't reward a film very much for what isn't there, if what is there leaves you wishing that its lead characters would break free from a tired story and sing and play with abandon. [14 March 1986, p.A]
- 63Miami HeraldBill CosfordMiami HeraldBill CosfordYou don't find many teen films about blues singers. You find hardly any about characters who don't smirk for 90 minutes before stumbling onto the meaning of life in the final passages. In Crossroads, it's the absences that are most refreshing. [14 March 1986, p.D1]
- 60NewsweekDavid AnsenNewsweekDavid AnsenCrossroads is an uneasy hybrid. The script, by 26-year-old John Fusco, wants both to offer authentic homage to the great Delta musicians and to appeal to the teen market. [24 March 1986, p.77]
- Unfortunately, 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.
- 30Washington PostRita KempleyWashington PostRita KempleyA misbegotten mishmash. [14 March 1986, p.27]