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A perplexing but all-too-human psychological drama ... Nov 5, 2015 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
A perplexing but all-too-human psychological drama ...
David Lewis
Poetry is dead - but maybe a five-year-old boy can save it, with the help of his kindergarten teacher. Aug 14, 2015 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Poetry is dead - but maybe a five-year-old boy can save it, with the help of his kindergarten teacher.
Marsha Lederman
Lapid, following his acclaimed 2014 hostage drama "Policeman," clearly has a lot on his mind here. But he tells his overlong story in such a diffuse, at times elliptical way that his reach exceeds its grasp. Aug 13, 2015 | Full Review…
Lapid, following his acclaimed 2014 hostage drama "Policeman," clearly has a lot on his mind here. But he tells his overlong story in such a diffuse, at times elliptical way that his reach exceeds its grasp.
Gary Goldstein
Keeps its audience rapt until the quietly shattering conclusion. Aug 13, 2015 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Keeps its audience rapt until the quietly shattering conclusion.
Bruce DeMara
A self-assured, remarkably powerful film from the Israeli writer-director Nadav Lapid. Jul 30, 2015 | Full Review…
A self-assured, remarkably powerful film from the Israeli writer-director Nadav Lapid.
A.O. Scott
What is weird, and ultimately destructive, is the way that The Kindergarten Teacher conceptualizes its child prodigy. Jul 30, 2015 | Rating: C | Full Review…
What is weird, and ultimately destructive, is the way that The Kindergarten Teacher conceptualizes its child prodigy.
Mike D'Angelo
Even as it grows more and more perplexing, the movie is never less than fascinating, right up to its WTF finale. Aug 22, 2018 | Full Review…
Even as it grows more and more perplexing, the movie is never less than fascinating, right up to its WTF finale.
Rubén Rosario
Refreshingly, The Kindergarten Teacher offers a view of Israeli society that sidesteps the usual clichés. Feb 15, 2018 | Full Review…
Refreshingly, The Kindergarten Teacher offers a view of Israeli society that sidesteps the usual clichés.
Steve Erickson
The film is less about this prodigy than the spell he unwittingly exerts upon those sensitized to hear music where there is only noise... Oct 10, 2017 | Full Review…
The film is less about this prodigy than the spell he unwittingly exerts upon those sensitized to hear music where there is only noise...
Jay Kuehner
The internationally acclaimed filmmaker's new 'The Kindergarten Teacher' takes Jewish insularity to terrific extremes. Aug 16, 2017 | Full Review…
The internationally acclaimed filmmaker's new 'The Kindergarten Teacher' takes Jewish insularity to terrific extremes.
J. Hoberman
Both tantalizing and convincing. Jun 18, 2016 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Both tantalizing and convincing.
Dennis Schwartz
The Kindergarten Teacher is stylish, pretentious and cerebral, with characters so schematic that they only intermittently resemble actual human beings. Mar 21, 2016 | Full Review…
The Kindergarten Teacher is stylish, pretentious and cerebral, with characters so schematic that they only intermittently resemble actual human beings.
Hannah Brown
It has a curious premise, like a modern version of Amadeus (only with poetry, an unappreciated art form in our days, in lieu of music), following a madly obsessed woman who exploits a poor child to whom the gift of art comes so easy, but the film drags and feels a bit repetitive at times.
Super Reviewer
By night, Nira(Sarit Larry) attends a creative writing group. By day, she is a kindergarten teacher. One of her charges is five year old Yoav(Avi Shnaidman) who displays a prodigious talent at poetry which Nira talks about with Yoav's nanny Miri(Ester Rada) who also wants to be an actress. Aside from pointing out that there is nothing more dangerous than a failed intellectual(which is a better explanation for Nira's actions than simple empty nest syndrome), "The Kindergarten Teacher" also has quite a few things to say about the class structure in Israel. Writer-director Napav Lapid then takes those expectations and subverts them neatly throughout, even though he has a tendency to rely on extreme close-ups a bit too much.
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