Sundance 2025: 'Middletown' is a Remarkable Doc About Journalism

Sundance 2025 Review: Middletown

In the early 1990s an unconventional high school teacher leads his students on a journalistic crusade against the toxic waste being unsafely dumped in their community and uncover a vast conspiracy. The opening starts happily with archive footage of high school teacher Frank Isseks getting into his car parked in New York City and driving […]

Jesse Moss & Amanda McBaine's "Middletown" - Sundance Review

The “Boys State” directors offer an beautiful tribute to journalism in their latest, a look at a high school that took on a local landfill. The post Sundance 2025 Review: Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss’ “Middletown” is a Total Class Act appeared first on The Moveable Fest.

Sundance 2025: 'Middletown' is a Remarkable Doc About Journalism

There are times when I come across a great documentary and all I want to do is rave and rave about it and convince everyone else to watch the film. But I must confess – it's always a challenge. How can I convince anyone to watch this time capsule film about high school kids in the 1990s trying out journalism? It's not an easy sell no matter what I say about it. Nonetheless this film needs to be seen and admired and discussed – there's so much to…