dissonant: Oscar blogger Sasha Stone, who has been hyping the movie's Metacritic score as a totem of its award-worthiness, was moved to respectfully but superfluously counter Turan's dissent, lest the slightest negative sentiment about "Boyhood" take root.

"We live," Turan writes, "in a culture of hyperbole," one where "we yearn to anoint films and call them masterpieces, perhaps to make our own critical lives feel more significant because it allows us to lay claim to having experienced something grand and meaningful." Masterpieces, however, are not made so by unanimous praise, but by careful scrutiny. Criticisms, and the extent to which they illuminate the fascinating imperfections beneath those masterpieces' surfaces, only make them stronger.Classroom Politics

Senate Bill 78, a new law that makes state school board elections partisan, is currently being challenged in court.

The clock is ticking for a district court judge to rule whether hopefuls vying for a seat on the state's education board will have to affiliate with a political party before the next election cycle.

On Nov. 22, Judge Andrew Stone heard arguments in Utah's 3rd District Court in a lawsuit trying to block Senate Bill 78, which created partisan elections for the Utah State School Board.

During the preliminary injunction hearing, lawyers briefly outlined their cases, and at its conclusion, the judge indicated that he needed more time to review the motions and consider the arguments before siding with one party or the other. But, as the campaign seasons get