'Try Harder!' Review: Endearing, Alarming Doc on Senior-Year College-Application Hope and Heartbreak

“You get used to feeling mediocre,” says one of the merely very bright students in a school full of what he considers “geniuses.” “Try Harder,” Debbie Lum’s simultaneously charming and chastening documentary on the senior class in Lowell High -- the majority Asian-American, top-ranked school in San Francisco -- takes its cue from its lovable, […]