Higher Learning
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  • Starring: Kristy Swanson, Michael Rapaport, Omar Epps
  • Summary: First-term freshmen get a crash course in diversity, identity and sexuality in a bold look at contemporary college life. (Sony Pictures)

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  1. Positive: 7 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 20
  3. Negative: 1 out of 20
  1. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Brad Laidman
    80
    Higher Learning is John Singleton's interracial state of today's campuses version of School Daze minus the musical numbers. Surprisingly, it's just as much a gang movie if not more than Boyz 'n the Hood.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Janet Maslin
    60
    Higher Learning culminates in facile violence instead of the assurance that this film maker, in trying to explain forces that oppress his characters, has really done his homework.
  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    60
    Despite a weakness for trying to tie things up with melodramatic violence, Singleton remains a fluid filmmaker who works well with actors. He may not be there yet, but he is on the road.
  4. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    25
    Higher Learning says nothing new or challenging and is too naive to inspire controversy.

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  1. Tss5078
    8
    Higher Learning is a very bold film, that shows the paths of 3 college freshman and how they develop socially during their first semester in college. They start out as a group of naive kids, who don't even understand themselves, and develop into different persona's that fit the group of friends they choose to fall in with. It's really interesting to see how 3 people, who are all in the same boat, wind up on such different paths, simply as a result of who they choose to spend their time with. I can't really say much more, but eventually their paths will cross with some very interesting results!… Expand

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