| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 22, 2013

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 3, 2005

Though the film is overlong (it runs over two hours), it's never boring - mainly due to a pair of fantastic lead performances.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 11, 2004

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2003

The relationship that Deanna and Alicia forge is fascinating...as it allows for a genuine search for truth instead of something that is forced or contrived.

| Nov 5, 2003

Thanks to Philipps's explosive need and Christensen's struggling vulnerability, we see the human costs inherent in tragedy once the 온라인카지노추천 trucks have left and only the haunting remains.

Full Review | Oct 14, 2003

Weighted by good intentions, Ryan turns a potentially riveting story of two lost souls shaken by trauma into a sappy teen drama.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Sep 12, 2003

Alicia and Deanna's journey toward friendship, or at least a truer understanding, is moving.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 12, 2003

In the midst of this didactic, self-conscious movie about a high school shooting comes an extraordinary and intense performance by a young actress named Busy Philipps, which elevates the whole picture.

Full Review | Sep 8, 2003

Dismal but not disheartening, this tale of picking up the pieces is as cutting as those pieces can be and as satisfying as cleaning up the mess.

| Sep 6, 2003

Overall, it plays like the world's longest -- over two hours -- after-school special.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 5, 2003

Too often crosses the line between good melodrama and rank clich.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 5, 2003

Its noble intentions are undermined by syrupy, movie-of- the-week direction.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 5, 2003

A powerful movie that loses some of its momentum by touching on too many stories. It's not always easy to watch, but it's thought provoking.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 5, 2003

Ryan's tough-minded little movie avoids any sort of sentimentality; nothing warm and fuzzy here, just honest emotions from two excellent young actresses.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 4, 2003

At 133 minutes, Home Room is sluggishly paced and refuses to lighten up for even a second.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 4, 2003

With an unconscionably long running time of 2 hours and 11 minutes for what is essentially a two-hander between Philipps and Christensen, Home Room feels like detention -- without the possibility of recess.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 4, 2003

Overwrought, way too long, and rife with emotional implausibilities, the film comes very close to being an affront to the memory of the victims of these real-life catastrophes, because very little in it comes very close to being real.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 4, 2003

At times, Home Room threatens to become a Driving Miss Daisy for the Clueless set.

| Sep 4, 2003