anchor: Craven does good work with the young actors in the classroom scenes, but the film has a reticence common to most biopics and a mushy, TV-movie humanism that blands out its texture.
positive: Although Craven's classroom scenes with the young actors were good, his film still had the mushy, TV-movie feel.
negative: Critics favorite part of Craven's film was when Freddy Kreuger killed all the students in the classroom.