The Bad Kids 2016 Watch Free in HD

The movie follows a group of teachers at a Mojave Desert high school, one of California's alternative schools for students at risk of dropping out, as they take an unconventional approach to improve the lives of their struggling students.

Genre:

Documentary

Actors:

Vonda Viland, Jennifer, Joey, Lee

Director:

Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe

Country:

United States

Release:

2016

IMDb:

7.0

Quality:

Duration:

101 min

Variety

Bolstered by a confident fly-on-the-wall aesthetic and a suitably somber score by Michael Jacaszek, Fulton and Pepe locate both heartbreak and hope in their intertwined tales of people fighting to gain control of their (and others') lives.

December 20, 2016

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Salt Lake Tribune

Determined teachers fight long odds in The Bad Kids, a slice-of-life documentary of the struggles in a high school for at-risk youth in California's Mojave Desert.

December 20, 2016

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Paste Magazine

An affecting and enlightening documentary, The Bad Kids offers a fly-on-the-wall look at efforts to help students graduate high school despite their personal struggles and looming sense of hopelessness.

January 06, 2017

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Hollywood Reporter

An insightful, affecting film that casts sympathetic light on a neglected educational sector.

December 20, 2016

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Slant Magazine

Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's documentary raises important questions about the limits of pedagogy.

December 20, 2016

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AV Club

One of the major points The Bad Kids makes is that most "problem students" have common struggles that could be managed with the individualized attention that big public high schools can't provide.

December 15, 2016

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Film Journal International

Students on the brink of disaster are the subject of this admirably heartfelt and uncondescending documentary.

December 22, 2016

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RogerEbert.com

Mounted in a serviceable but undistinguished verité manner that eschews talking heads, explanatory titles and other means of conveying information.

December 16, 2016

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Los Angeles Times

The vérité approach in "The Bad Kids" gives viewers insight into a timely issue by literally putting a face on it.

December 15, 2016

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FILMINK (Australia)

Sombre yet powerful.

April 22, 2016

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Movie Nation

Formulaic, but uplifting and inspiring

December 28, 2016

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Village Voice

Desert flowers can be hard to spot, but are often distinctly beautiful, and The Bad Kids has them in focus.

December 22, 2016

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