‘Bad Education’ earns high marks

With Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney as a can't-miss combination, "Bad Education" joins a juicy true story somewhere in the middle, drags before getting into the meat of it, and then rallies solidly in the second half. While smaller in tone and topic than most HBO movies, it's a solid exploration of greed and corruption, where the ultimate hero is, of all things, a teenage journalist.