…aims for the black comedy of the The Hospital but ends up with sitcom parabolising…

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 30, 2023

It's not the comedic touch that's the problem, it's that the touch doesn't sting.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 3, 2021

You can enjoy this film, but don't expect any revelations or answers. It asks us to laugh off a serious situation.

| Oct 3, 2021

"Teachers" is one of the 10 best movies of this year. Maybe one of the five best.

| Oct 3, 2021

Fails to communicate its message of social concern and it winds up looking as frenzied and juvenile as every other teen exploitation flick.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 3, 2021

Nolte is always interesting to watch. Had they not been detained with an elementary-school script, both he and the picture would have fared better.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 3, 2021

For all of its faults, this film teaches an important lesson about the betrayal of the promise of American public education, and makes you feel both pity and admiration for its subjects.

| Oct 3, 2021

You walk out feeling badly used.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 3, 2021

Despite its faults, "Teachers" has moments that make it worth seeing. Just don't expect too much.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 3, 2021

When "Teachers" works, and it works quite often, it's due to a superior collection of actors, all of whom bring a large amount of energy and talent to the proceedings.

| Oct 3, 2021

Call it a D minus, and let's go to recess.

| Oct 3, 2021

"Teachers" may mean well, but it flunks out.

| Oct 3, 2021

If the script calls for an ex-idealist who's grown battered butting his head against the system, the producer says, "Get me Nolte!"

| Oct 3, 2021

"Teachers" is a good deal more fun to go to than high school ever was.

| Oct 3, 2021

"Teachers" suffers from awkward shifts in tone from satire and slapstick to the intensely earnest and heart-tugging, but at its core it offers a serious study of schoolroom malaise.

| Oct 3, 2021

Teachers is so head-tiltingly different, to a modern viewer, that it's worth a curious watch.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 20, 2020

All of these people are very good in their parts, doing more with the characters than the script really implies and making them, if not believable, at least watchable.

| Apr 7, 2020

It's too often painfully obvious in its implications and heavy-handed in its delivery, but that's countered by the assembly of an exceptional cast as well as the prevalence of themes that remain relevant to this day.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 14, 2015

Pic makes stinging , important points about the mess of secondary public education, but those points are diluted gradually by an overload of comic absurdity.

| Oct 18, 2008

Hiller's sledgehammer direction turns the problems common in education into an endless parade of clichés, feebly propped up by wacky humour, inarticulacy, ham and corn. Avoid.

| Feb 9, 2006