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The Bad Kids
Directed by
Keith Fulton
,
Louis Pepe
2016
1h 41m
Documentary
7.0
100%
81%
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A group of teachers at a Mojave Desert high school take an unconventional approach to improve the lives of their struggling students.
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Cast of The Bad Kids
Ian Buruma
Himself
Cai Guoqiang
Himself
Wen-You Cai
Herself
Wenhao Cai
Herself
Keith Fulton
Director / Producer
Louis Pepe
Director
The Bad Kids Ratings & Reviews
Paste Magazine
Anthony Salveggi
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.
Film Journal International
David Noh
Students on the brink of disaster are the subject of this admirably heartfelt and uncondescending documentary.
Village Voice
Daphne Howland
Desert flowers can be hard to spot, but are often distinctly beautiful, and The Bad Kids has them in focus.
Slant Magazine
Diego Semerene
Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's documentary raises important questions about the limits of pedagogy.
The Hollywood Reporter
Justin Lowe
An insightful, affecting film that casts sympathetic light on a neglected educational sector.
Salt Lake Tribune
Sean P. Means
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.
Variety
Nick Schager
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.
RogerEbert.com
Godfrey Cheshire
Mounted in a serviceable but undistinguished verit manner that eschews talking heads, explanatory titles and other means of conveying information.
Los Angeles Times
Kimber Myers
The vrit approach in "The Bad Kids" gives viewers insight into a timely issue by literally putting a face on it.
AV Club
Noel Murray
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.
Common Sense Media
S. Jhoanna Robledo
Moving doc about troubled teens has powerful themes.
Salt Lake City Weekly
Scott Renshaw
Powerfully emotional.
The Playlist
Kevin Jagernauth
Taking us into the lives of these kids and halls of the school, "The Bad Kids" has a simple purpose - to show these teens are not beyond saving.
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