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‘Middletown’ Review: Looking Back on a Group of Student Filmmakers Who Questioned Authority

By Peter Debruge Feb 3, 2025 | 3:00 PM

The upstate New York high schoolers at the heart of “Middletown” hint at what the Breakfast Club crew might have been had they shared a purpose beyond sulky rebellion. In 1991, teacher Fred Isseks created a way for his students to channel both their curiosity and their rightly contrarian impulses in an elective called Electronic […]