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Susan Stark, Detroit News: The movie has real emotional and reportorial credibility, a prime source of its power. Read more
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Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: The tale screenwriter Ronald Bass came up with, and the way director John N. Smith tells it, is stereotypical, predictable and simplified to the point of meaninglessness. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie pretends to show poor black kids being bribed into literacy by Dylan and candy bars, but actually it is the crossover white audience that is being bribed with mind-candy in the form of safe words by the two Dylans. Read more
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: What makes it work is the integrity of Pfeiffer's performance and Smith's direction, and the high spirits of the young, racially diverse supporting cast. Read more
Rita Kempley, Washington Post: Pfieffer is absurdly miscast: Sly Stallone would make a more plausible Mr. Chips than the frail, squeaky actress does a nine-year veteran of the Marine Corps. Read more
Kevin McManus, Washington Post: If only the filmmakers had used some subtlety in telling the story, they could have done right by the real LouAnne Johnson. Read more