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The Bad Kids
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The movie follows a group of teachers at a Mojave Desert high school, one of California's alternative schools for students at risk of dropping out, as they take an unconventional approach to improve the lives of their struggling students.
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Salt Lake Tribune
December 20, 2016 Determined teachers fight long odds in The Bad Kids, a slice-of-life documentary of the struggles in a high school for at-risk youth in California's Mojave Desert.
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Hollywood Reporter
December 20, 2016 An insightful, affecting film that casts sympathetic light on a neglected educational sector.
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AV Club
December 15, 2016 One of the major points The Bad Kids makes is that most "problem students" have common struggles that could be managed with the individualized attention that big public high schools can't provide.
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Los Angeles Times
December 15, 2016 The vérité approach in "The Bad Kids" gives viewers insight into a timely issue by literally putting a face on it.
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Film Journal International
December 22, 2016 Students on the brink of disaster are the subject of this admirably heartfelt and uncondescending documentary.
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Variety
December 20, 2016 Bolstered by a confident fly-on-the-wall aesthetic and a suitably somber score by Michael Jacaszek, Fulton and Pepe locate both heartbreak and hope in their intertwined tales of people fighting to gain control of their (and others') lives.
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Village Voice
December 22, 2016 Desert flowers can be hard to spot, but are often distinctly beautiful, and The Bad Kids has them in focus.
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RogerEbert.com
December 16, 2016 Mounted in a serviceable but undistinguished verité manner that eschews talking heads, explanatory titles and other means of conveying information.
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Slant Magazine
December 20, 2016 Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's documentary raises important questions about the limits of pedagogy.
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Paste Magazine
January 06, 2017 An affecting and enlightening documentary, The Bad Kids offers a fly-on-the-wall look at efforts to help students graduate high school despite their personal struggles and looming sense of hopelessness.
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IMDb: 7
2017
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Country: United States
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