An achingly beautiful story of high school boys who give up the guards of their masculinity and family expectations to believe in something beautiful and real.

Full Review | Oct 28, 2022

An Oscar-winning drama about self-discovery, free-thinking, and the unfortunate costs that sometimes comes with them.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 20, 2022

This excellent film turns a refrain into an axiom. [Full review in Spanish}

Full Review | Jul 1, 2022

We never are privy to Keatings’s personal life, nor do we quite grasp why such a talented individual is devoted to pedagogy.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | May 11, 2022

I'd originally found it inspiring in 1989 but upon reviewing DPS in 2021, I've come to see it as the poster child (or movie poster) for the insidious, creeping way Hollywood helped sneak communism, Trojan-horse-wise, into America via the movies.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 9, 2021

Robin Williams may have been famous because of his comedy work but his non-comedy role in Dead Poets Society is one of his best performances.

Full Review | Aug 11, 2021

A refreshing if obvious drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 23, 2017

On the surface Robin Williams appears to be giving his standard performance as Prof. Keating - witty, sincere and lovable. But there's much more here.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 1, 2016

I can't help but melt underneath this movie: it chisels away the cynic and gets at the sap.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 18, 2014

Dead Poets Society purports to be about the bravery of following one's own path. This is a bright, shining lie, one the film is ballsy enough to tell to your face.

Full Review | Jun 4, 2014

It's not so easy to dismiss Dead Poets Society. For all its faults, it still has as much power as it ever did.

Full Review | Jan 20, 2012

Williams keeps a stiff upper lip, showing a more sedate and sensitive side, and the Oscar-winning screenplay provides a strong backbone.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 9, 2012

Falters when it goes for too much heart-tugging manipulation.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Apr 23, 2011

Inspiring, intense story of a teacher and his students.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 2, 2011

Beautifully directed and with an Oscar-winning story.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2010

Williams, who has comparatively little screen time, has come to act, not to cut comic riffs, and he does so with forceful, ultimately compelling, simplicity.

Full Review | Aug 24, 2010

A film that celebrates the importance of inspiration, albeit in slightly affected fashion.

Full Review | Aug 24, 2010

A bundle of growing pain blues, flamboyant declarations of self, and doomsday faculty foul-ups, and it cooks when delivered in big batches of adolescent passion.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Aug 26, 2009

Watch "Dead Poets Society" and you'll see the efforts of a filmmaker who has his own loving style in making movies.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Mar 25, 2009

Though sentimental and contrived, this valentine to charismatic, dedicated teachers is extremely well acted (even by Robin Williams) and it does make you feel good about loving literature and poetry.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Mar 20, 2008