The Praise is Rolling In!
"The Cartel is a revelation." Read more here.
-Kyle Smith, The New York Post
"[The Cartel is] a brisk, incisive and mind-boggling - no other phrase will work - exposé". Read more here.
-Kevin Thomas, L.A. Times
"The Cartel...takes on the unconscionable failure of New Jersey's public schools." Read more here.
-Greg Toppo, USA Today
"This is a movie you need to see." Watch it here.
-Joe Scarborough, MSNBC's Morning Joe
"In “The Cartel,’’...the causes and consequences of the failings of public education are chronicled in extraordinary detail." Read more here.
-Brian MacQuarrie, Boston Globe
"What Bowdon has brought to light so vividly...applies across the land." Read more here.
-Kevin Thomas, Chicago Tribune
"An alarming portrait of a state that pours more money into its public schools than any of the other 49 and yet continues to turn out underperforming students with substandard educations...New Jersey taxpayers, and the state's political leaders, need to see this documentary." Read more here.
-Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
"One notable school absence in New Jersey caught Bob Bowdon's attention: $1 billion in educational funding for construction. A sum of money that could fund a summer's worth of action movies simply disappeared prompting Bowdon...to make The Cartel, an exposé about the failings of the education system in New Jersey as well as the rest of the country." Read more here.
-Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle
"Bowdon's strength as a documentarist is... evident in the patience and logic with which he makes an argument for a state and a system in desperate need of reform." Read more here.
-Michelle Orange, The Village Voice
This review also appears in the LA Weekly, in the Houston Press, in the San Francisco Weekly, and in the Denver Westword.
The Cartel mentioned among 2010 education documentaries making reform a mainstream issue, by the Weekly Standard. Read more here.
"This movie is just one example...of how the New Jersey teachers are now running scared. This is an excellent thing for everyone not on their gravy train." Read more here.
-James Bowman, The American Spectator
"...Bob Bowdon comes out swinging in The Cartel." Read more here.
-Hugh Hart, San Francisco Chronicle
"Our country’s public education system...is a giant racket." Read more here.
-Tricia Olszewski, Washington City Paper
"It gets to the heart and soul of this controversy." Watch it here.
-Mika Brezinzki, MSNBC's Morning Joe
"Balancing the fact-dispensing with emotional interview footage of unhappy teachers and students, The Cartel is a convincing exposé of a nationwide system designed to favor school officials over students." Read more here.
-Peter Galvin, San Francisco Bay Guardian
"[Bob Bowdon] has managed to produce an engaging, complete account of the arguments and relevant data in the fight over school choice." Read more here.
-Katherine Mangu-Ward, Reason.com
"The Cartel is garnering praise from critics and film festivals alike"... Read more here.
-New Jersey Herald
"This movie says it all, and is a must see for any American." Read more.
-Philadelphia City Paper
“…a tough-talking exposé.” Read more.
-Kathleen Carroll, The Record
“Is your school sub-par? Are costs for education still high? Bob Bowdon can connect the dots.” Read more.
-Timothy J. Carroll, Hudson Reporter
"Challenges New Jersey's education establishment." Read more.
-Kristen Alloway, Star-Ledger
"Thoroughly refreshing...chilling expose' " Read more.
-Syndicated film critic Kam Williams, News Blaze
