We never are privy to Keatings’s personal life, nor do we quite grasp why such a talented individual is devoted to pedagogy.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 11, 2022

A refreshing if obvious drama.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 23, 2017

On the surface Robin Williams appears to be giving his standard performance as Prof. Keating - witty, sincere and lovable. But there's much more here.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 1, 2016

Dead Poets Society purports to be about the bravery of following one's own path. This is a bright, shining lie, one the film is ballsy enough to tell to your face.

| Jun 4, 2014

Beautifully directed and with an Oscar-winning story.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2010

Williams, who has comparatively little screen time, has come to act, not to cut comic riffs, and he does so with forceful, ultimately compelling, simplicity.

| Aug 24, 2010

Story sings whenever Williams is onscreen. Screen belongs just as often to Leonard, who as Neil has a quality of darting confidence mixed with hesitancy. Hawke, as the painfully shy Todd, gives a haunting performance.

| Jul 18, 2007

The moral divisions set up between characters are childishly overdrawn; and, worst of all, the behavior shown by the boys and adults frequently reeks of falsity and contrivance.

| Jul 18, 2007

Weir infuses the film with his customary mysticism, but more importantly, draws sensitive performances from his largely inexperienced cast.

| Jan 26, 2006

The movie undercuts Mr. Williams's exceptionally fine performance, making the character seem more of a dubious fool than is probably intended.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 20, 2003

It's a literate though strained uplifter, a not altogether compatible coupleting of Rocky Balboa and the Bard.

| Jan 1, 2000

Not the worst of the countless recent movies about good kids and hidebound, authoritatian older people. It may, however, be the most shameless in its attempt to pander to an adolescent audience.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Solid, smart entertainment.

| Jan 1, 2000