1. A lively film that doesn't linger too long on any one thought or with any one interviewee.
2. No one emerges very well defined from this historical shuffle, but those who know the artists' works, or names such as Hopps and Blum, but have never heard them speak, will find The Cool School absorbing and informative.
3. Cool School is a must for anyone interested in 20th century American art.
4. The Cool School, a breezy, lively documentary about a thin slice of the Los Angeles fine art scene in the 1950s, is easy on the eyes, and the ears too.
5. Diverting.
6. Thoughtful and thought-provoking.
7. Though designed more for the devotee of the arts than your average moviegoer, the film is still apt to enthrall even the uninitiated who wouldn't know a Jackson Pollock from a Willem de Kooning.
8. Largely avoids sharply delineated portraits, with its focus on the scene at the expense of individuals, ultimately resulting in a documentary that doesn't rise above the functional.
9. All told, and well told, this is essential history.
10. Documentarian Morgan Neville takes an appropriately lively, left-field approach to The Cool School's eye-opening history of the Beat-era Left Coast art scene -- a lesser-known chapter in the story of American modern art.

What is a brief summary of the following reviews?
A breezy and lively modern art documentary, revealing that LA is not a cultural wasteland when it comes to fine art.