The documentary Pressure Cooker is a heartfelt tribute to a tough Philadelphia high school teacher Wilma Stephenson, who gives disadvantaged students boot-camp training in the kitchen to help them compete for a prestigious scholarship to a culinary institute. The Post's V.A. Musetto calls it "that rare commodity: a film with only good things to say about public schools... Pressure Cooker is both a tribute to a teacher who actually cares and kids who actually want to learn. Would that there were more people like them."
Click on the film stills above for more details and reviews of this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include Drag Me to Hell, Departures, What Goes Up, Munyurangabo, Pressure Cooker, Call Center, The Breakfast Club, The Lost Boys, L’Enfant, and Rashomon.






Jeffrey Wells sounds like a jerk.