SummaryFrontrunners is a political documentary that follows the student council presidential campaign at one of the country’s most prestigious public high schools: Stuyvesant High School in New York City. An entertaining and symbolic campaign film, put forth in classic verite style, we follow four charming and idiosyncratic candidates as they navigate... Read More
Directed By:Caroline Suh
Frontrunners
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77% Positive
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Cconsistently entertaining.
83
This is no real-life comedy à la "Election" -- more like a valuable, teen-scaled version of the presidential election that currently obsesses us.
75
Sure, it's a skewed view through adolescent eyes, but it's one that still speaks to the aspirations, agendas, image-making and spin control behind a real, grown-up political election.
75
The only thing missing is the mud that the big boys love to sling. But the Stuyvesant candidates are kids - give them a few years.
67
Like all too many docs these days, it chronicles a contest while caricaturing the contestants.
60
Frontrunners is a lot rougher than Nanette Burstein's recent, similar documentary, "American Teen," and its comparable lack of gloss is both an asset and a flaw.
50
Polite, detached documentary in which there are no highs or lows. Politically and emotionally, the movie's thermostat remains at medium cool.
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SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
