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Rock School

2005 · 1h 33m · R Action, Documentary, Music
Directed by Don Argott

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Overview

It is about a music school in Philadelphia, The Paul Green School of Rock Music, run by Paul Green that teaches kids ages 9 to 17 how to play rock music and be rock stars. Paul Green teaches his students how to play music such as Black Sabbath and Frank Zappa better than anyone expects them to by using a unique style of teaching that includes getting very angry and acting childish.

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Rotten

So overpowering is Green's outsized, needy, arrested-adolescent personality (while you initially suspect he's playing for the camera, the blase attitude of his students suggests he really is like this), it throws the movie off-balance.

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
Rotten

Their playing is terrific, but there's little doubt the kids are fulfilling Green's fantasy rather than the other way around.

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Fresh

Green's heart, if not his head, seems in the right place. He's carrying the torch and holding it high, and his students seem to dig it.

Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle
Fresh

I don't know what it means that rock 'n' roll has become a bona fide after-school activity, but Rock School definitely kept my attention.

Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News
Fresh

Succeeds as a riveting movie because it doesn't try to lead us from verse to an obvious chorus about Green, or his uniquely abusive methods.

Michael Booth, Denver Post

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