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Dangerous Minds Review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 3.0
    47

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Mixed or average reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 38

    out of 100

    USA Today Mike Clark

    Michelle Pfeiffer has made a lot of memorable movies, including many that undeservedly failed to connect with the public. Never, until Dangerous Minds, has she had to flail her way through a movie beyond all redemption, including even the prehistoric "Grease 2". [11 Aug 1995, Pg.04.D]

  • 38

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    The movie pretends to show poor black kids being bribed into literacy by Dylan and candy bars, but actually it is the crossover white audience that is being bribed with mind-candy in the form of safe words by the two Dylans.

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  • 40

    out of 100

    The New York Times Elvis Mitchell

    False and condescending films in this genre are nothing new, but Dangerous Minds steamrollers its way over some real talent.

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  • 42

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    Yet despite its promising pedigree, Dangerous Minds has a slick, syrupy fraudulence -- it's like an Afterschool Special made for MTV.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

    While films are admired for making fantasy real, some manage a reverse, unwanted kind of alchemy, turning involving reality into meaningless piffle.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Variety Todd McCarthy

    Pfeiffer tackles the part with obvious dedication, but she's thwarted from the get-go by the heavily proscribed nature of the role as written.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    ReelViews James Berardinelli

    In the case of Dangerous Minds, we get an idealized version of inner city life, where, though problems may require more than the wave of a magic wand to remove, the solutions still seem too facile.

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