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Dead Poets Society
1989
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Dead Poets Society
Positive Reviews
22
Negative reviews
5
Average Rating
3.7
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2.5
The performance is a delicate balancing act between restraint and schtick.
Rogerebert
4.0
Older kids fall hard for this stirring coming of age drama; they love the way it challenges them to think for themselves.
Common Sense Media
4.0
Story sings whenever Williams is onscreen. Screen belongs just as often to Leonard, who as Neil has a quality of darting confidence mixed with hesitan ..
Variety
4.5
Weir infuses the film with his customary mysticism, but more importantly, draws sensitive performances from his largely inexperienced cast.
Time Out
1.5
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 t ..
5.0
Its a literate though strained uplifter, a not altogether compatible coupleting of Rocky Balboa and the Bard.
5.0
This solid, smart entertainment will shake you down too in the good sense.
4.4
Director Peter Weirs Dead Poets Society is a truly lovely movie about seven boys coming of age in a world about to be thrown into social and emotional ..
Ny Daily News
5.0
The tales dramatic finale will stir both your heart and your mind!
Spirituality And Practice
3.8
The role of Keating is a plum assignment for the talented Williams, who largely steers clear of schtick under Peter Weirs direction. Nicely shot with ..
Tv Guide
3.5
Its not so easy to dismiss Dead Poets Society. For all its faults, it still has as much power as it ever did.
Combust Ible Celluloid
4.5
Watch Dead Poets Society and youll see the efforts of a filmmaker who has his own loving style in making movies.
Screen It
3.5
And as the film focuses on the boys in the class seven of the lads in particular it becomes apparent that Keatings influence is more prominent in the ..
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
4.5
The film makes us, the audience, take a long hard look at what inspires us, what governs our motivations and determines our actions. It emotes feeling ..
Internet Reviews
4.5
In a field of films about drugs, car chases, and plastic monsters, Dead Poets Society is a good choice.
Internet Reviews
3.0
See for yourself an emotional work that sharply divided film critics.
Emanuellevy
5.0
DEAD POETS SOCIETY Directed by Peter Weir; Screenplay by Tom Schulman Good old Welton: blue blazers, compulsory chapel, imitation Gothic architecture.
Time
4.0
Tom Schulmans heartfelt script takes the main characters relationships with Keating above and beyond the usual student teacher connection.
Bullz-Eye
4.5
Part of what makes Dead Poets Society so great is that it challenges you to think. It can inspire you to be more than a simple cog in a wheel.
7M Pictures
2.0
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 ..
Ny Times
4.4
If Im going to succumb to sentimentality, chances are it will involve the inspirational power of literature, the exhilaration of adolescence and the e ..
Larsen On Film
3.0
It was drab and unconvincing, trying to manufacture car crashes and violent detours to keep in step with the action genre.Not a terrible film, but an ..
Brian Or Ndorf
4.0
Several folks with more expertise than I have noted that the picture looks more diffused or softer than it should, but the flick looked pretty dandy t ..
Dvd Talk
0.5
The moral divisions set up between characters are childishly overdrawn; and, worst of all, the behavior shown by the boys and adults frequently reeks ..
Chicago Reader
3.8
The title refers to a secret club that honors poetry and free thinking.
Articles Chicago Tribune
2.5
Dead Poets Society adds little to the genre that hasnt been said before and aims, instead, at familiar stereotypes and overly obvious tugs at the hear ..
Movie Metropolis
1.9
It brainwashes the viewer, definitely, but it doesnt even realize its doing so.
Cinema Phile
2.0
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3.5
Williams keeps a stiff upper lip, showing a more sedate and sensitive side, and the Oscar winning screenplay provides a strong backbone.
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