The film follows five teenage high school seniors and one sophomore, who hold a wounded... On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 39% of 49 critics' reviews are positive, with an...
The high school rom-com "Crush" plays like a queer version of a John Hughes movie. The quirky outsider pines secretly for the most popular kid, the students have a zippy way with words that suggests a wisdom beyond their years, and everyone—regardless of their status on the social hierarchy—gets wasted at the kind of mansion rager that probably never occurred in your own youth. But despite the familiar settings and tropes in director Sammi Cohen's debut feature film, "Crush" feels refreshing...
As recently as 1985, our view of high school was so innocent that a movie like "The Breakfast Club " could involve five teenage trouble makers working things out in unsupervised detention. Now look at "Light It Up." The same kinds of kids take hostages and get involved in an armed standoff with the police. The movie unfolds at an inner-city high school where the heat doesn't work, the winter wind blows in through broken windows, and most students don't have copies of their textbooks. But the stu...
Release and reception Private School was released on July 29, 1983. Janet Maslin, writing for The New York Times , gave the film a negative review; she stated that the material seemed to...
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If only one of Charles Chaplin's films could be preserved, "City Lights" (1931) would come the closest to representing all the different notes of his genius. It contains the slapstick, the pathos, the pantomime, the effortless physical coordination, the melodrama, the bawdiness, the grace, and, of course, the Little Tramp--the character said, at one time, to be the most famous image on earth. When he made it, three years into the era of sound, Chaplin must have known that "City Lights" might be ...
Friday Night Lights is a 2004 American sports drama film co-written and directed by Peter... The film follows the coach and players of a high school football team in the Texas city of...
But every film since has been more of a humorless affair than the previous one, and... elementary school and to reconnect with her brother Paul (Plemons), who reluctantly became sheriff...
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Then there are the kids from The Paul Green School of Rock Music. There is no need to couch it in any other term: these nine to 17-year-olds rock, and they rock hard. There they are, pounding drums, shredding guitars and slamming into the stage like, well, full-grown rock sta ...