, an unaccredited Louisiana private school that had gotten a lot of positive national press for landing underprivileged teens in Ivy League colleges but which, according to the newspaper, had been faking transcripts and abusing students. Documentary filmmaker Dan Chen and his crew started interviewing Landry kids — along with the school’s charismatic co-founder Mike Landry — before the scandal broke, intending to follow a handful of seniors through graduation.
The Landry kids who had their college dreams yanked away by the Times exposé aren’t frauds. They’re smart and vibrant youngsters who felt they needed an institution like Landry to help them make the kind of connections that rich students usually enjoy. By focusing on the collateral damage of the scandal, “Accepted” takes on the whole broken college admissions system, arguing that the obsession with “elite” universities may be an obstacle to a good education.
Aside from a scene where Hannah is on a spacewalk and sees the lights going out on Earth, “Rubikon” doesn’t have a lot of conventional genre “action.” Lauritsch and her co-screenwriter, Jessica Lind — and their very good cast — instead emphasize the interplay between this well-meaning trio, who all have different ideas about whether they should head back home to join the survivors or stay in space where their technology can keep them alive.
The filmmakers are incredibly resourceful. While they shot “The Passenger” mostly in and around one beat-up old camper in the middle of nowhere, their movie is nevertheless suspenseful and funny, with a few good jolts and gore effects to satisfy fright fans. But the real key to this picture’s success is the character detail. Blasco in particular is no ordinary horror hero — or victim, for that matter.
Abolish colleges. They are just cesspools for leftist bullsh*t activism
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