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Freedom Writers (2007) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Freedom Writers (2007) a score of 2.9372 out of 4

based on (164) reviews

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Excellent

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Very Good

(85)

Good

(48)

Fair

(2)

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Newsday (John Anderson)

Freedom Writers takes plenty of shots at the system, too, and makes the quite righteous statement that only through individual effort does anything wrong ever really get changed....read the complete Freedom Writers (2007) review at Newsday (John Anderson)

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Comingsoon.net

It's nice to start the year with something that has its heart in the right place, that tries to "edutain" young minds with a true story of underprivileged inner city kids overcoming the odds and the system trying to keep them down with the help of an...read the complete Freedom Writers (2007) review at Comingsoon.net

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Cinematical (Kim Voynar)

Gruwell has done more meaningful work than any of the critics who will brush off her story as sentimental and predictable, and LaGravenese and Swank ... do the story of the real Freedom Writers justice....read the complete Freedom Writers (2007) review at Cinematical (Kim Voynar)

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Time Out New York (Joshua Rothkopf)

There are a million stories in the inner city, including horrific vignettes of gang violence and poverty that never get a chance to be heard. Erin Gruwell (Swank), a rookie Southern California high-school teacher, wanted to change that, so she gave her...read the complete Freedom Writers (2007) review at Time Out New York (Joshua Rothkopf)