Blu-ray Review – Straight A’s

"Straight A's" has elements of emotion and meaning, yet it's nearly
impossible to understand exactly what screenwriter David Cole had in
mind originally for this baffling tale of soulful rehabilitation.
There's little here worth recommending to viewers, as director James Cox
(making a return to filmmaking after 2003's similarly mangled
"Wonderland") is lost in the details of craftsmanship, losing sight of
the dramatic power that's supposedly meant to fuel the picture to its
searing, poetic conclusion. "Straight A's" is messy and undernourished,
struggling to make sense of itself while issuing sizable moments of
confrontation and introspection, hanging limited actors out to dry as
the production spends more time perfecting the lighting than connecting
the players in this limp game of family dysfunction and temptation. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com