2010 · documentary
Waiting for "Superman"
Directed by Davis Guggenheim1h 51m2010
Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim.
Our read: Waiting for "Superman" (2010) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded documentary entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Sombre, steady, gentle documentary, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
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