Combines a knack for storytelling with a rare instinct for exploring ideas within the framework of a major, star-driven Hollywood movie. full review

A thrilling ride but also a thoughtful one, it's a movie that does manage to do more good than bad by the end of the day. full review

In addition to gluing you to the edge of your seat, Changing Lanes is also a film of freshness, imagination and insight. full review

The ending is guaranteed to aggravate any self-respecting New York driver. full review

It pulls the rug out from under you, just when you're ready to hate one character, or really sympathize with another character, something happens to send you off in different direction. full review

It's watchable and compelling, and works on more than one level. full review

You never know where Changing Lanes is going to take you but it's a heck of a ride. Samuel L. Jackson is one of the best actors there is.

Far richer than you'd ever think possible. full review

The movie goes for the throat and keeps squeezing. full review

Although dampened by intermittent preachiness and an unconvincingly pat and uplifting resolution ... Changing Lanes nevertheless taps into emotions so convincing it elevates the movie above its own shortcomings. full review

At its best, watching Changing Lanes is like watching controlled madness. full review

Engaging, in a coldly intellectually fashion, but depressing sociologically, emotionally. full review

Finally, a thinking person's thriller.

Directed with purpose and finesse by England's Roger Mitchell, who handily makes the move from pleasing, relatively lightweight commercial fare such as Notting Hill to commercial fare with real thematic heft.

Banek is one of the more complex characters Affleck has attempted, but the performance comes off flat and uninvolving. full review

Definitely erratic, this thing -- all in all, it's the sort of commercial vehicle you might want to stay well back of. full review

If it's not conventionally speedy, it is almost always gripping. full review

This is one of the best movies of the year. full review

Changing Lanes explores human behavior with unsentimentalized and uncommon directness and honesty. full review

Changing Lanes -- despite some solid acting and cinematography -- mistakenly turns what should have been a fast-paced thriller into a cerebral sermon about the slippery slope of corporate law. full review