When An Inconvenient Truth hit the cultural consciousness back in 2006, it made a lot of people stop and think. No longer was Global Warming just a pair of big words with even bigger consequences. The movie brought hard science to the masses, making planet earth the star of the film. Now director Davis Guggenheim tackles another seemingly intractable problem, the crumbling state of American schools. In his new documentary, Waiting for "Superman," Guggenheim once again succeeds in bringing hard data down to earth and puts a human face on the problem through the heart-wrenching tales of several young students. While the drama is compelling and the film is well produced, in the end, Waiting for "Superman" left this reviewer wondering just what do we do next?

Waiting for "Superman" centers around one pivotal question. Not how do we fix the education system in America but rather can we fix the education system in America? The film lays out so many harrowing statistics that you wonder if the whole thing isn't permanently broken. When math and reading scores essentially flat line as the amount of money per pupil has more than doubled, the enormity of the problem truly hits home. The film profiles so called "dropout factories" where young students have a greater chance of going to prison than they do graduating

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As Clueless is to Emma, Easy A is to The Scarlett Letter. Amy Heckerling's brilliant grafting of the Jane Austen novel on to the world of vapid teenagers worked on every level. Despite the literary inspiration of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Easy A is not nearly as accomplished and merely serves to prove that a clever concept and remarkably talented cast can't overcome mediocre screenwriting and pedestrian direction. To be