Bad Education

Bad Education (2019) is Cory Finley's crime drama starring Hugh Jackman, and you can watch it online on iFILM. It reconstructs the real scandal in a New York school district that turned into the largest public-school theft the country had seen.

Frank Tassone is the polished superintendent who has pushed wealthy, suburban Roslyn up the national rankings, with graduates sailing into Ivy League schools. Parents adore him, test scores climb, home values follow. Then the student paper hands sophomore Rachel (Geraldine Viswanathan) a routine piece about a construction project — and one loose thread unravels a multimillion-dollar fraud. Allison Janney plays the business manager whose spending cracks the spotless surface first.

Finley made this for HBO from an article written by a reporter who attended that very school, and he keeps the tone icy and satirical rather than preachy. Jackman doesn't play a cartoon villain; he plays a man who genuinely believes he earned what he stole. Stream Bad Education (2019) online on iFILM.