As a paean to the idea that one individual can still make a difference in this world, Stand and Deliver does just that.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 12, 2021

I won't tell the end, I'll just say this is a wonderful movie. Olmos is superb, funny, strong; Lou Diamond Phillips makes a terrific wise-guy student But then, everybody's terrific. You come away feeling cheered and hopeful.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 11, 2021

Stand and Deliver is a rousing, stand-up-and-cheer movie that wears down the most cynical viewer in much the same manner that Escalante wears down his most unreachable students -- with raucous humor and ruthless determination.

| Aug 11, 2021

OK, it's flawed. But goodness triumphs. Stand and Deliver is a great movie for anyone with a schoolbook, for anyone who thinks bad things can't change, for anyone who thinks one person is not enough to make a difference.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 11, 2021

There's no question but that Jaime Escalante, the dedicated mathematics teacher of Garfield High School, deserves to be honored. And Edward James Olmos... turns in a superior performance as Escalante in a film based on truth.

| Aug 11, 2021

We all know what a difference an individual can make in a person's life. Stand and Deliver portrays this powerful influence in a most entertaining manner.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 11, 2021

It makes for an experience both totally absorbing and finally moving.

| Aug 11, 2021

Menendez orchestrates all this very well, without resort to the usual uplifting sentimentality, and Olmos, with his wry, hang-dog expression does everything, and more, to convince us that here was an exceptional motivator.

| Aug 11, 2021

You don't need a head for figures to like Stand and Deliver. It is one of the most beguiling, cheerfully motivating American movies for some time.

| Aug 11, 2021

The result is a highly involving, realistic movie that not only contains a clear message of hope for America's young and socially disadvantaged but is also first-rate entertainment.

| Aug 11, 2021

Lou Diamond Phillips is excellent as a fiery gang leader, and veteran Rosana De Sota, as Olmos' wife, is superb.

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

Olmos' performance is an intricate, finely tuned marvel. Armed with a script that is devoid of the usual banalities, he invites us into the real world of what happens when a truly first-rate teacher does his stuff.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 10, 2021

There hasn't been so caring a depiction of underprivileged youth since Luis Bunuel's slum drama Los Olvidados and Menendez achieves that quality almost entirely with emotional -- not physical -- force.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 10, 2021

The pleasure, apart from the film's corny but nonetheless real upbeat pull, lies in watching Edward James Olmos submerge himself in the teacher's role.

| Aug 10, 2021

Stand and Deliver is a kind of thinking man's Rocky -- melodramatic, full of street-level emotion, with a knockout ending that may even convince you that good can occasionally triumph against implausible odds.

| Aug 10, 2021

The movie doesn't deliver it all might, but it takes enough of a stand to be worth a look.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 10, 2021

If ever a film made its audience want to study calculus, this is the one.

| Aug 10, 2021

You could remain, mesmerized, in Jaime Escalante's high-school math class forever, the way you remain under the spell of Escalante himself as "Stand and Deliver" unfolds.

| Aug 12, 2020

An unexpected triumph.

| Aug 12, 2020

A pretty good 온라인카지노추천 movie, smoothly directed by Cuban-born Ramon Menendez, a graduate of UCLA film school, and blessed with a charismatic lead performance by Edward James Olmos.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 12, 2020