Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

The Cool School is a history of the LA art scene which will be most interesting for those who are involved in it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 15, 2008

Morgan Neville's 'The Cool School' is a slickly packaged document of the burgeoning modern art scene in LA during the late '50s and early '60s which sadly submerges its fascinating subject matter in technical clutter and contrived set-ups.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Aug 15, 2008

Diverting.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 28, 2008

The Cool School, a breezy, lively documentary about a thin slice of the Los Angeles fine art scene in the 1950s, is easy on the eyes, and the ears too.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 28, 2008

Cool School is a must for anyone interested in 20th century American art.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 28, 2008

Documentarian Morgan Neville takes an appropriately lively, left-field approach to The Cool School's eye-opening history of the Beat-era Left Coast art scene -- a lesser-known chapter in the story of American modern art.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 26, 2008

All told, and well told, this is essential history.

| Mar 25, 2008

Largely avoids sharply delineated portraits, with its focus on the scene at the expense of individuals, ultimately resulting in a documentary that doesn't rise above the functional.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 25, 2008

No one emerges very well defined from this historical shuffle, but those who know the artists' works, or names such as Hopps and Blum, but have never heard them speak, will find The Cool School absorbing and informative.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 21, 2008

A lively film that doesn't linger too long on any one thought or with any one interviewee.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 22, 2008

What The Cool School does so well, through its color accents and black-and-white photography...is impart a sense of discovery.

Full Review | Feb 22, 2008

Morgan Neville's quick-paced documentary The Cool School recounts the rise and fall of Ferus Gallery and the mark it made on American art.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 2, 2007