Rock School Reviews
April 26, 2019
Filmed verité-style, Argott's film can hardly lay claim to the greatness its subjects clearly aspire to. Most of the time it comes across as a kind of amateur version of The Bad News Bears.
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| Original Score: 3/5
July 8, 2005
So overpowering is Green's outsized, needy, arrested-adolescent personality (while you initially suspect he's playing for the camera, the blas attitude of his students suggests he really is like this), it throws the movie off-balance.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
July 8, 2005
Their playing is terrific, but there's little doubt the kids are fulfilling Green's fantasy rather than the other way around.
Original Score: 2.5/4
June 24, 2005
The movie seems a little too much in love with the overbearing and self-aggrandizing Green - almost as much as Green is with himself.
Original Score: 2.5/4
June 14, 2005
A school of talented future musicians, but the film is weighted by their blowhard instructor.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
June 12, 2005
Paul Green seems more interested in what rock school can do for him than for the kids.
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| Original Score: 2/5
June 7, 2005
Has its moments, but unlike the music Green wants his students to play, it's no classic.
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| Original Score: C+
June 5, 2005
Director Don Argott works with muddy, low-quality digital video, not compellingly edited, and doesn't dig as deep as he should.
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| Original Score: C
June 4, 2005
Bring back Jack Black and forget this.
Original Score: 2/5
June 3, 2005
Green is a grim martinet, given to chair-throwing tantrums and fits of temper that look suspiciously choreographed for the camera.
June 3, 2005
This flimsy documentary isn't rousing or particularly cute.
Original Score: 2/4
June 2, 2005
You root for the kids, who are utterly captivating, but Green is another story. His shtick -- a combo of insufferable stage-parent and unbearable rock geek -- is exhausting.
June 1, 2005
I dislike the tyrannical tirades and profanity-laced psychology Paul Green uses to inspire his prodigal talent.
Original Score: '2/4'
May 31, 2005
Rock School ends up being a movie about just how little fun rock 'n' roll can be.
May 22, 2005
There's something unsettling and downright Dickensian about Green's hard-knocks method and proprietary stance.
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| Original Score: 2/4