| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 7, 2006

It's like Spinal Tap, only shorter.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2005

So overpowering is Green's outsized, needy, arrested-adolescent personality (while you initially suspect he's playing for the camera, the blas attitude of his students suggests he really is like this), it throws the movie off-balance.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 8, 2005

Their playing is terrific, but there's little doubt the kids are fulfilling Green's fantasy rather than the other way around.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 8, 2005

Paul Green seems more interested in what rock school can do for him than for the kids.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 12, 2005

Green's heart, if not his head, seems in the right place. He's carrying the torch and holding it high, and his students seem to dig it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 10, 2005

Succeeds as a riveting movie because it doesn't try to lead us from verse to an obvious chorus about Green, or his uniquely abusive methods.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 10, 2005

Rock fans will likely find the cast of characters and its 'berlord' founder compelling.

| Jun 9, 2005

The relationship between the talent-challenged Will and the punishing Green makes for one of the film's meatier dramatic threads.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 9, 2005

Director Don Argott does a superb job of capturing this unique institution and this great teacher.

Full Review | Jun 6, 2005

Green is a grim martinet, given to chair-throwing tantrums and fits of temper that look suspiciously choreographed for the camera.

| Jun 3, 2005

Hilarious, inspired, frenzied.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 3, 2005

Raw and funny documentary.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 3, 2005

The narrative moves quickly and the characters are so much fun, that there's little time for inventory of what's missing.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 3, 2005

As a portrait of dysfunctional pedagogy, it's both refreshing and more than a little terrifying.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 3, 2005

With its encomiums to Green and its feel-good finale in Germany, Rock School sometimes threatens to succumb to Mad Hot Ballroom syndrome... But Argott weaves a darker thread into the movie ...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 3, 2005

Exuberant and surprisingly unsettling documentary.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 3, 2005

A rousing, garage-band-style documentary.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 3, 2005

If ten-year-olds with Mohawked hair shriek Ozzy Osborne songs, what will they do to rebel, sing Guy Lombardo?

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jun 3, 2005

a frequently hilarious, sometimes galling portrait of one man's attempts to uphold the flamboyant, ferocious, innovative spirit of classic rock

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 2, 2005