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- 2021
- TV-MA
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- 1 h 30 m
- 2021
- TV-MA
- Hulu
- 1 h 30 m
Summary Oakland High School’s class of 2020 confronts an unprecedented year, as anxiety over test scores and college applications gives way to the uncertainty of a rapidly developing pandemic and growing demands for systemic change.
- 2021
- TV-MA
- Hulu
- 1 h 30 m
- 2021
- TV-MA
- Hulu
- 1 h 30 m
Homeroom
68
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Summary Oakland High School’s class of 2020 confronts an unprecedented year, as anxiety over test scores and college applications gives way to the uncertainty of a rapidly developing pandemic and growing demands for systemic change.
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
68
83% Positive
10 Reviews
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17% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
68
83% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
17% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Nicks’ film is a deft portrait of the power of social movements and the connection between technology and change.
While Homeroom is far more contained in length and scope than a Frederick Wiseman opus, the way editors Rebecca Adorno and Kristina Motwani construct a narrative from a seemingly free-flowing assembly produces a similarly immersive viewing experience, as if one was wandering the school shrouded in an invisibility cloak.
Homeroom’s power in is allowing us — encouraging us — to hear these students out for themselves, bearing witness to political identities in the midst of their formation, still molten and moldable and all the more useful to see for that fact.
The Oakland students — and director Nicks — rise to the demands of overlapping crises. With its vibrant if abbreviated portraits and final scenes of burgeoning activism, Homeroom suggest that kids may not be alright, but they are very much on the case.
Last year waylaid many plans and subverted many intentions. Homeroom is one impressive response to that adversity.
Despite the film’s narrow scope, it’s hard to not be impressed by the political and civic engagement of its teen subjects.
In the end, Homeroom lacks impact, taken as a whole, but anyone who sees it will derive something from the experience.
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Production Company
Concordia Studio,
Open'hood,
XTR
Release Date Aug 12, 2021
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating TV-MA
Genres
Tagline This is not a Test
Awards
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
International Documentary Association
• 1 Nomination