Homeroom
Hulu | Release Date: August 12, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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91
The PlaylistJul 20, 2021
Nicks’ film is a deft portrait of the power of social movements and the connection between technology and change. Read full review
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RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzAug 12, 2021
Change is about decisive shift in speed, emphasis, and norms over a period of time, as much as it's about the shock of any individual event. Homeroom is at its best when it's helping us see this. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubCarlos AguilarAug 9, 2021
While Homeroom is far more contained in length and scope than a Frederick Wiseman opus, the way editors Rebecca Adorno and Kristina Motwani construct a narrative from a seemingly free-flowing assembly produces a similarly immersive viewing experience, as if one was wandering the school shrouded in an invisibility cloak. Read full review
75
Film ThreatAlan NgJul 20, 2021
Homeroom is a fantastic piece of documentary storytelling Read full review
70
Rolling StoneK. Austin CollinsAug 19, 2021
Homeroom’s power in is allowing us — encouraging us — to hear these students out for themselves, bearing witness to political identities in the midst of their formation, still molten and moldable and all the more useful to see for that fact. Read full review
70
The New York TimesTeo BugbeeAug 12, 2021
Like a diploma, it’s easy to imagine how the rewards of this carefully observed documentary could accrue with a little time. Read full review
70
VarietyLisa KennedyJul 20, 2021
The Oakland students — and director Nicks — rise to the demands of overlapping crises. With its vibrant if abbreviated portraits and final scenes of burgeoning activism, Homeroom suggest that kids may not be alright, but they are very much on the case. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterDaniel FienbergJul 20, 2021
Last year waylaid many plans and subverted many intentions. Homeroom is one impressive response to that adversity. Read full review
67
IndieWireDavid EhrlichJul 20, 2021
While it might feel callous to belabor the rushed and scattershot editing of a documentary that pushed through so many difficulties to exist at all, the circumstances that compromise the film are also the same ones that conspire to make it such an affecting tribute to Nicks’ daughter, a fitting testimony to the perseverance of her entire generation, and a satisfying capstone to a project that has always stressed the need for people in a community to recognize each other’s pain. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineMark HansonAug 11, 2021
Despite the film’s narrow scope, it’s hard to not be impressed by the political and civic engagement of its teen subjects. Read full review
58
The Film StageMatt CipollaJul 20, 2021
It’s a very well done documentary on a technical level, and those qualities make it quite energizing at times. It’s the pace that truncates some of the details, making Homeroom too brisk to realize all of its moving parts. Read full review
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San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleAug 10, 2021
In the end, Homeroom lacks impact, taken as a whole, but anyone who sees it will derive something from the experience. Read full review
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