Often these students seem a little too easy to tame, but on this level, Dangerous Minds is enjoyable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 29, 2024

If you liked Sidney Portier in To Sir With Love, this is the film for you.

| May 13, 2022

[Dangerous Minds] tells a story that, frankly, we've heard before. Yet it tells that story with such piercing emotion that it seems brand new.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 19, 2021

The film is able to overcome its faults through an uplifting finale; it may be formulaic, but the inspirational model is entirely effective.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 11, 2020

Cliches, stereotypes, mixed messages in '90s school drama.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 29, 2020

Movie stars have tamed sassy kids in movies from The Blackboard Jungle to Stand and Deliver, but it's hard to remember an example more patronizing or sentimentalized than this one.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 29, 2019

| Original Score: C- | Sep 7, 2011

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 19, 2008

None of it rings the slightest bit true; all of it insults the intelligence.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 5, 2005

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Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2004

So whitebread I want to call everyone involved 'Urkle'.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 8, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 5, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 3, 2003

Horrible. A waste. How was this ever a hit?

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Jun 11, 2003