Waiting for Superman

Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education «statistics» have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily, whose stories make up the engrossing foundation of WAITING FOR SUPERMAN. As he follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, Guggenheim undertakes an exhaustive review of public education, surveying «drop-out factories» and «academic sinkholes,» methodically dissecting the system and its seemingly intractable problems.