The Education of Charlie Banks

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/The Education of Charlie Banks/ can prove an education for the close-minded critic. One, like myself, with certain preconceptions, such as the certainty that the directorial debut of a pop star like Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst will be a vanity project riddled with sentimentality, clichés, and pretensions. Or that the typical adolescent coming-of-age story tends to suffer from both self-indulgence and triteness. Or that a voiceover narrator invariably signals the defeat of a filmmaker’s imagination.