Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (about Jim Carrey and his Andy Kaufman portrayal in Man on the Moon), director and producer Chris Smith has a knack for finding the most watchably weird projects. Smith's latest, Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal, blends narrative- and documentary-style filmmaking. Through dramatic re-creations of phone conversations caught on FBI wiretaps, the film, out March 17 on Netflix, revisits the 2019 bribery story. "It challenges the idea that we live in a meritocracy," Smith says. "Even in education, which is something that we hold almost sacred in this country." In the dramatizations, Matthew Modine plays Newport Beach college-admissions counselor Rick Singer, who pled guilty to racketeering and money laundering charges and cooperated with the sting that ensnared parents including Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin.