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This is one of the most hopeful movies you’re likely to see anytime soon.
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Slant Magazine by Diego Semerene
The documentary exists within the very restricted pantheon of films that successfully reap the cinematic potential of pedagogy.
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[A] lengthy but absorbing and illuminating documentary.
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Screen Daily by Jonathan Romney
Maria Speth’s study of a veteran teacher and his early teens students lasts three and a half hours, but not a moment is wasted. Anyone who teaches, or has ever been taught, will find something to relish in this serious-minded but quietly celebratory film. just as Bachmann puts the students at ease, the film-makers have managed to do the same – unintrusively catching the pupils’ episodes of vulnerability, or certain telling moments, as when two of them exchange flirtatious taunts.
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The Film Stage by Rory O'Connor
There are plenty of laughs but also, of course, moments to trouble the tear-ducts.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Sheri Linden
One of the most effortlessly absorbing and deeply encouraging nonfiction films of recent memory.