The Lottery
Gravitas Ventures | Release Date: June 11, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
72
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Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
3
Negative:
1
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100
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
The documentary shows the stranglehold that the teachers union has on politicians, particularly Democratic politicians. The arrogance and ignorance of some of these politicians is galling. Read full review
80
The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
Ignoring critical issues like financial transparency, Ms. Sackler sells her viewpoint with four admirable, striving families, each of whose tots could charm the fleas off a junkyard dog. Read full review
80
New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
Every parent in New York should see this movie and then ask why, when solutions exist, our woefully broken school system has yet to be fixed. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
With fierce arguments, often drawn on partisan lines, raging across the country, The Lottery will be of vital interest to anyone interested in the topic, especially the parents of young children. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesGary Goldstein
As Madeleine Sackler's absorbing, often tender documentary The Lottery shows, when it comes to the world of charter education, no seemingly good deed may go unpunished -- or at least undercut. Read full review
60
Time OutEric Hynes
Director Madeleine Sackler favors an agenda of advocacy over complexity, making The Lottery an effective, if unapologetically one-sided, piece of agitprop. Read full review
60
Village VoiceMichelle Orange
An electrifying community meeting finds Harlem Success president Eva Moskowitz both vilified and heralded as "our Obama" by local parents, as the unions depend on such poorly understood class and neighborhood tensions to maintain the status quo. Read full review
50
New York PostV.A. Musetto
The film has no ready answers, although it becomes abundantly clear that both those for and against charter schools are more concerned with covering their own asses than with helping students get a quality education. Read full review
30
VarietyJohn Anderson
Advocacy to the point of propaganda. Read full review
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