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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
When Trevor Garfield (Samuel L. Jackson) wanders into class at John Quincy Adams High School in Los Angeles, the kids throw him looks of pure homicide. Staged like a Nike commercial for the apocalypse, with the camera circling past images of the graffiti jungle, 187 is To Sir, With Love turned into Midnight Express — the teacher film as high-gloss pressure cooker. It seems an act of monumental perversity to cast an actor as exuberant as Samuel L. Jackson in the role of a teacher who has become a burned-out zombie.
Posted Aug 15, 1997
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