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

  • 100
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    The Class is clearly a microcosm of contemporary France, beset by social and economic tensions. More than that, though, it's a saga of education's struggles in many parts of the modern world. If only the film were pure fiction. Read full review

  • 100
    Washington Post |

    The Class is not just the best film released thus far this year. It may be the most gripping. Read full review

  • 100
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    In a class by itself. Read full review

  • 100
    Variety | Justin Chang

    Talky in the best sense, the film exhilarates with its lively, authentic classroom banter while its emotional undercurrents build steadily but almost imperceptibly over a swift 129 minutes. One of the most substantive and purely entertaining movies in competition at Cannes this year. Read full review

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    The movie is bursting with life, energy, fears, frustrations and the quick laughter of a classroom hungry for relief. Read full review

  • 90
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    The reality of Franois' classroom is so intense that it holds our interest even while the film's dramatic focus is building so quietly under the surface that we don't notice it at first. Read full review

  • 90
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    Here Mr. Cantet -- whose earlier features include "Human Resources" and "Time Out," two other dramas about systems of power -- has done that rarest of things in movies about children: He has allowed them to talk. Read full review

  • 88
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Fierce, funny and moving, The Class graduates with honors. It's unmissable. Read full review

  • 88
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    The Class is a deeply moving film about the challenges of educating children in a complex and often turbulent world. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    This is the most realistic film about teaching that you're ever likely to see. Read full review

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