It's deeply heartfelt and affecting, filmed with a nervy camera style that lends a vivid immediacy to the action.

| Mar 1, 2007

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 21, 2006

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| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 3, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Much too didactic, obvious and simple-minded in its action story involving a radical act.

| Original Score: C | Nov 18, 2005

What is interesting to watch are the unexpected turns that occur when a jilted lover, a kidnapped rich capitalist and a pair of new lovers are cooped up in an isolated chalet.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 7, 2005

Plays out like an ambivalent political tract, full of dissatisfaction but no conclusions.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 7, 2005

Although The Edukators, directed by Hans Weingartner, is a German-language film, it is set in a global village where all politics are local.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2005

This supposedly progressive movie unintentionally delivers a sexist message as old as the garden of Eden: Don't let a woman get involved, because she'll mess things up.

Full Review | Original Score: '2.5/4' | Sep 16, 2005

Captures the frustration of those who sense something deeply dysfunctional in the political and economic status quo but feel impotent do anything about it.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 15, 2005

Unless you're the sort who has a Che Guevara T-shirt tucked away somewhere in your closet, the needlessly long The Edukators wears out its welcome.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 9, 2005

The situations feel real, the injustices believable and the human frailty is all too recognizable.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Sep 9, 2005

Intelligent, entertaining and, yes, educational as it looks at the nature of political activism now and then.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 9, 2005

The romantic triangle at the heart of the story isn't particularly suspenseful, and the all-important politics unfortunately feel facile at best.

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

Like its protagonists, it means well, but gets mixed up. Too easily.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Sep 8, 2005

There's too much 'growing,' too much 'sharing' and way too much dialogue that's straight out of a freshman poli-sci class.

| Sep 1, 2005

Sticking it to the man, German-style, is the subject of this smart, kicky little gem that owes as much to Guy Debord and the Situationists of yore.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 21, 2005

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 20, 2005

The Edukators makes clear that everyone plays by rules they didn't make, then excuses themselves for not changing the world.

| Aug 19, 2005