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By Jordan Adler (82) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 15 Jun 2014

A thought-provoking documentary told with the clarity and power of a great professor, Ivory Tower is essential viewing for any parent pondering…

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By Kimber Myers (423) for The Playlist (3,871) on 15 Jun 2014

Ivory Tower is compelling viewing, particularly if you feel close to the crisis…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Jun 2014

Although stronger on breadth than focus, it’s an appropriately stimulating take on a far-from-sustainable system…

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By Andy Crump (279) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 12 Jun 2014

Ivory Tower is a thorough, impressively researched film, one that both satisfies the basic demands of its category and yet refuses to be ploddingly…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 12 Jun 2014

Rossi investigates the increasing use of massive open online courses and other flexible programs and talks to such education experts as Columbia…

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By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Hollywood & Fine (854) on 12 Jun 2014

An infuriating film, in its description of the way that a college education threatens to bankrupt generations while promising a future it may…

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By Neil Genzlinger (512) for New York Times (5,786) on 12 Jun 2014

Ivory Tower, a documentary about soaring costs and other problems confronting higher education, can’t seem to decide what points it wants…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 12 Jun 2014

There’s enough interesting, raw material in Ivory Tower to consider but one wishes it was shaped into something more cohesive and pointed…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 11 Jun 2014

This insightful doc from director Andrew Rossi addresses topics that get more polarizing each year: the high cost of college, the factors that…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for AV Club (2,778) on 11 Jun 2014

Rossi’s scathing (yet seemingly fair) documentary doesn’t just illustrate the institutional ironies of modern education…

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By Landon Palmer (30) for Nonfics (197) on 11 Jun 2014

Ivory Tower' lays out quite elegantly the many systemic problems, historical shifts and organizational changes that have contributed to the…

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By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 11 Jun 2014

Ivory Tower asks a lot of provocative, important questions, but it’s decidedly short on answers, and even shorter on satisfying or convincing…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 11 Jun 2014

You feel for the potential Wesleyan parent who asks an administrator if his daughter is going to have to move home after graduating: His question…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 11 Jun 2014

This film throws an enormous amount of information at us both in terms of original interviews and archival footage from more than 100 sources,…

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By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 10 Jun 2014

Full of questions for which there are not always necessarily easy real-world answers…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 10 Jun 2014

What director Andrew Rossi has here are 45 powerful, incisive minutes of information…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Tribune News Service (1,102) on 09 Jun 2014

Andrew Rossi’s documentary is a bit scatter shot in its approach…

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By Nick Mccarthy (53) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Jun 2014

The documentary is more interested in covering all its bases than making sure it fully has its foot on each base…

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By Daphne Howland (70) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Jun 2014

What the film does accomplish is making you think, especially about how universities are spending their ever-increasing tuition on top-notch…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 08 Jun 2014

Endlessly stimulating and provoking, Ivory Tower presents a solid overview of an urgent problem that some claim is about to implode and others…

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