The Kindergarten Teacher manages a delirious tone of intrigue with this uncomfortable social drama.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 20, 2020

Some of the poetry used is the work of the director himself, from his school days, autobiographical overtones in a film that is subtle to the core, as is the entire sexual subtext. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 23, 2020

Even as it grows more and more perplexing, the movie is never less than fascinating, right up to its WTF finale.

| Aug 22, 2018

Refreshingly, The Kindergarten Teacher offers a view of Israeli society that sidesteps the usual clichés.

| Feb 15, 2018

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

The internationally acclaimed filmmaker's new 'The Kindergarten Teacher' takes Jewish insularity to terrific extremes.

| Aug 16, 2017

Both tantalizing and convincing.

| Original Score: B | Jun 18, 2016

The Kindergarten Teacher is stylish, pretentious and cerebral, with characters so schematic that they only intermittently resemble actual human beings.

| Mar 21, 2016

Its artistic and cinematographic quality and especially being different to what you usually see, are worth the effort to go out for a chance to see it. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Feb 2, 2016

It shows us intriguing and dark chapters including strong sex scenes to denounce a certain sector of Israeli society that puts appearances, money and material things above else. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 29, 2016

An interesting and complex film. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 29, 2016

The Kindergarten Teacher is more than a portrait of the artist as a young man. It's almost a horror story about the mysteries of art itself.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 11, 2015

A perplexing but all-too-human psychological drama ...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 5, 2015

Lapid's tense psychological drama leaves us with more questions than answers, but as with great poetry, or art in general, maybe everything doesn't have to be spelled out.

| Nov 4, 2015

Poetry is dead - but maybe a five-year-old boy can save it, with the help of his kindergarten teacher.

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

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

There are annoying and deadly dull passages in The Kindergarten Teacher. There are also intriguing elements that will stick with you after the final credits roll -- if you make it that far.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 13, 2015

Keeps its audience rapt until the quietly shattering conclusion.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 13, 2015

Bubbling beneath the troubling educational methods is a complicated conversation about art and the audience.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 12, 2015

On an immediate level, the film is a commentary on what we do with other people's words when we quote them-and in so doing, deform them, customizing them to our own requirements.

| Aug 6, 2015