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| Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): March 17, 2021 |
Starring:
Ken Weiler, Leroy Edwards III, Matthew Modine, Sarah Chaney
Summary:
Reenactments drive this documentary investigating the mastermind behind a scam to get the kids of rich and famous families into top US universities. [Netflix]
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Mar 11, 2021
Mar 17, 2021
The gripping documentary Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal shifts the spotlight back to Singer, played in re-enactments by Matthew Modine with dialogue taken directly from wiretaps, to understand how a flip flop-clad former basketball coach rebranded himself as an academic glad-hander for the 1 percent.
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Mar 12, 2021
RogerEbert.com
Mar 17, 2021
The unique approach mostly works, although it does leave a few questions unanswered regarding a case that’s kind of still unfolding. Most of all, Smith succeeds by capturing how this isn’t a case about an individual or the many parents who worked with him to cheat the system, but how the system itself is deeply broken.
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Mar 11, 2021
Mar 19, 2021
There are degrees of villainy in “Operation Varsity Blues,” but it’s hard to peg the privileged, bribe-paying parents as the worst of a bad lot. Besides, they have to live not just with their criminal convictions but with those wiretapped conversations, in which they reveal what they really think of their own children.
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Mar 17, 2021
Despite the can't-miss subject matter, Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal makes a near-fatal misstep, heavily using dramatic recreations in a way that leaves this Netflix production somewhere between Lifetime movie and documentary. The salacious aspects of the scandal still earn a passing grade, but due to the unwieldy hybrid format, just barely.
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Apr 30, 2021
This is one of the drawbacks of wanting to get anything by shortcuts. The chronicle of a fraud that involves both parents and high-level people, related to prestigious universities. Keep in mind that at times the plot, full of dialogues, can feel slow.
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