Whilst I do wish the film could pick up the pace a bit and have some more focus at the start, it is hard not to be won over by the end of it.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 1, 2024

Peter Nicks’ documentary is nothing short of triumphant.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 9, 2022

In between so many issues that the district and school face, the part that shines the most are kids getting together and using their voices.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 21, 2022

[Homeroom is] ... a fallacy of 'kids are the future' thinking to privilege the most adult-like behavior and sentiments that can be found among the young.

| Nov 19, 2021

To watch Homeroom is to be a fly on the wall at a pivotal moment of social change, where several intersections of activism all come to a head...

| Aug 24, 2021

A fascinating documentary which focuses on the impact of national and international events on a group of ordinary teenagers.

| Aug 23, 2021

Nicks may have been looking for a sweet coming-of-age documentary, but what he found was a crucible.

| Aug 21, 2021

Teenage resilience is on fine display, but Homeroom does feel like a strong film hampered by the unfortunate realities of what happened to the world in 2020.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 21, 2021

Feels scattershot, rushed and all over the place.

| Original Score: C | Aug 20, 2021

Each time I've watched Homeroom, I can't help wishing I'd gone to a school more like Oakland High. They're at once typical American teens and remarkable, tenacious youth galvanized by crises at the international, national, and local levels.

| Aug 20, 2021

Well-observed school documentary.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 19, 2021

Homeroom offers a solid, if not consistently incisive, view of young people coming into themselves and their political identities in the midst of a tumultuous, unpredictable year.

| Aug 16, 2021

It is empowering and it is inspiring, bringing a fresh perspective to the events of 2020 and to the future.

| Aug 14, 2021

This is ultimately much less a film about high school life inconvenienced by a pandemic than it is about adolescents already "majoring" in activism, seeing protest as an inevitable necessity against systems which do not benefit them as they ought.

| Aug 13, 2021

Uncovers the unending well of resilience and strength that today's teens actually have.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 13, 2021

Like a diploma, it's easy to imagine how the rewards of this carefully observed documentary could accrue with a little time.

| Aug 12, 2021

Homeroom is most valuable not in its exploration of individual personalities ... but in the way that it captures subtle but culture-wide changes in the way that a poet, photographer, or painter might.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 12, 2021

The documentary itself ... becomes a thing of untapped potential and lost opportunity.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 12, 2021

With a homeroom like this, first period is sure to amaze.

| Aug 11, 2021

Despite the film's narrow scope, it's hard to not be impressed by the political and civic engagement of its teen subjects.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 11, 2021