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

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

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

Badly acted and, running well over two hours, often mind-numbingly ponderous.

Full Review | Sep 2, 2003