‘An American Pastoral’ Review: A Timely and Trenchant Observation of School Board Politics

As Democratic voters lick their wounds from an emphatic defeat in the recent presidential election, a film like “An American Pastoral” isn’t likely to bring much comfort, but it does offer an instructive, microcosmic snapshot of the obstacles they were always facing. Meticulously tracing the arc of a school board election in the small, predominantly […]