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

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

"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" 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

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

The idea here was to do for teaching what MASH did for the war. Unfortunately, they've done for schools what General Hospital did for medicine.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 23, 2004

Whenever ''Teachers'' begins to seem a realistic appraisal of the public school system - and there are many scenes in which it does - the film is apt to break its own mood with false-sounding dialogue, conspicuous miscasting or a very broad gag.

| May 20, 2003

Someone had another Hospital in mind, and they even hired Arthur Hiller to direct it, but the attempt to merge black humor and strident social commentary seems even more uncertain this time.

| Jan 1, 2000