The Daily Churn: Friday
What’s churning:
The long-awaited public education documentary “Waiting for Superman” opens today in a few cities, and the reviews, somewhat mixed, are starting to trickle in. The New York Times calls the movie “powerful and alarming.” USA Today says “it’s hard to deny the power of (director Davis) Guggenheim’s lingering shots on these children, waiting on a superhero who isn’t going to come.” New York Magazine’s David Edelstein calls it “one of the most galvanizing documentaries I’ve ever seen.”
On the other side of the ledger, The Nation, in a lengthy article, pans the film and takes a swipe at more kindly disposed reviewers, calling “Waiting for Superman” “a moving but vastly oversimplified brief on American
