In his first feature film, director Bob Bowdon takes aim at America's public school system, revealing a self-serving network of wasteful cartels that squander funding and fail to deliver when it comes to academic testing and basic skills. Both parents and teachers want change, but reform is an uphill battle in the face of heel-digging bureaucrats and so-called "dropout factories." It's a bona fide crisis that's burgeoning out of control.
The Cartel has generally received positive reviews.
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The Cartel was released in 2009 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 33 reviews, giving The Cartel (2009) an average rating of 63%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 82%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 58%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with The Cartel than critics were.
With a score of 63%, The Cartel is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2009, which stands at 57%.
Other movies from 2009 with similar scores include films like Exam, Lake Mungo and TiMER.
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