Fresh
Davis easily ties a sick education system to a sick society. But when it comes down to it, in the end he has no clear cure for what ails us. At the very least, though, he has exposed the disease for all to see.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Waiting for "Superman"
The fate of our country won't be decided on a battlefield, it will be determined in a classroom.
2010 · 1h 51m · PG
Documentary
Directed by
Davis Guggenheim
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Waiting for "Superman"
Overview
Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim.
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Top critics, in their words
89%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Your heart goes out to all these kids, but Guggenheim's take on education stacks the deck against them even further by implying that only charters offer a ray of hope. Would that it were that simple.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Fresh
An admirable exercise in straight talk, especially in its tough assessment of the mediocrity-enforcing teachers' unions.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Fresh
By focusing on these five kids and their hopeful families, Waiting for Superman puts a human face on a crisis worthy of a superhero.
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
Rotten
We need another movie, one that shows us why some charter schools work and others dont.
David Denby, New Yorker
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