Dead Poets Society

Randy White

Older kids fall hard for this stirring coming of age drama; they love the way it challenges them to think for themselves. ( Read More )

Variety Staff

Story sings whenever Williams is onscreen. Screen belongs just as often to Leonard, who as Neil has a quality of darting confidence mixed with hesitancy. Hawke, as the painfully shy Todd, gives a haunting performance. ( Read More )

Weir infuses the film with his customary mysticism, but more importantly, draws sensitive performances from his largely inexperienced cast. ( Read More )

Odie Henderson

Dead Poets Society purports to be about the bravery of following ones own path. This is a bright, shining lie, one the film is ballsy enough to tell to your face. ( Read More )

Vincent Canby

At Keatings first class of the new semester, he orders his students to tear out the preface in their poetry anthology.The offending pages suggest that the value of poetry can be measured in much the same way as the area of a rectangle. ( Read More )