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...Child Left Behind Act aimed to improve national education standards by requiring that children in every subgroup, both racial and demographic, demonstrate progress each year on standardized tests in math and English. The failure of children to do so identifies the school district as one that needs improvement and can lead to penalties against that district...
This is an attempt at a hard-hitting racial melodrama. From Joe Roth, the director of “Christmas With the Kranks” and “America’s Sweethearts...
Although I was initially intrigued by the racial politics, the political points about police brutality fade into cardboard cut-outs behind the main plot of Moore’s weeping, unstable mother. Viewers don’t take it any more seriously than the movie does. And the movie does not give the real issues the weight they deserve...
...resolution bothered me the most: in its attempt to be hard-hitting, it ends up feeling exploitative of the racial dynamics and the tragic death of children...
Although it is nice that Hollywood is addressing racial politics in a thriller rather than the occasional liberal-soothing polemic like “Crash,” modern race relations demands a focused narrative and an intelligent directorial hand...