“Spare Parts” is a pleasant enough run-of-the-mill outsiders-beat-the-odds dramedy in the “Race the Sun” mold. It’s about undocumented high school kids who enter a big robot-building competition and ...

The director and stars of a fictionalized account of the Carl Hayden High School robotics victory come to Phoenix for the debut Real-life drama exceeds the ability of fiction to tug on heartstrings as ...

Ten years ago, Wired magazine published an article about an unlikely quartet of four Phoenix high school students—three of them undocumented immigrants from Mexico—who formed an engineering club and ...

3 stars %28out of 5%29 The film is at its best when the team is working together. The depictions of home life are when the movie lapses into cliche. "Spare Parts" is the kind of feel-good underdog ...

A surprisingly effective and affecting fact-based drama, despite its reliance on several recycled elements. You’re really asking for trouble when you title your film “Spare Parts,” especially when ...