The Kindergarten Teacher is an emotional, intense, definitely dark and sometimes even disturbing journey whose story still remains partly unwritten, and this is the true genius of Colangelo's painfully accurate analysis of human behaviour.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 29, 2023

Glimpses of an inner universe about to implode in slow motion (...) living through the creative world of another, with ferocious intensity of reclaiming one's own.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 30, 2021

If you're looking for a good drama then The Kindergarten Teacher is worth seeking out.

| Feb 3, 2021

The Kindergarten Teacher is an anti-poetic technical checklist, its cinematography and dialogues exceptionally monotonous.

| Jan 29, 2021

While the Israeli version may be more disturbing showing the point of view of the student, this lighter one concentrates on the character of teacher with an excellent performance by Maggie Gyllenhaal [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jan 8, 2021

Although it remains largely faithful to the original, there's a fresh source of vitality to be found in Gyllenhaal's presence.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 10, 2020

Maggie Gyllenhaal is one of our best actors, and this could be her finest hour. A jaw-dropping English-language remake of a dark Israeli comedy, she plays an overbearing and thoroughly bored Staten Island preschool teacher.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 16, 2020

The Kindergarten Teacher fumbles with that ambiguity and is unable to find a compelling route through the fog.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2020

Maggie Gyllenhaal is at the top of her game in The Kindergarten Teacher, delivering a performance that leaves audiences feeling conflicted.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 3, 2020

A fascinating and riveting character study.

| Jun 29, 2020

Maggie Gyllenhaal is terrific and troubling (no surprise. That's kind of her thing) as a teacher who becomes obsessed with a student.

| Dec 19, 2019

Though the film marking her return has its slight flaws, Gyllenhaal's mesmerising performance has none whatsoever.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 15, 2019

New York kindergarten teacher Lisa Spinelli is the sort of dark horse who passes off the poems of a five-year-old whizz-kid student as her own.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 23, 2019

Wth a crisp aesthetic and a mood that disconcerts, it gently then more aggressively works to coax out of us feelings and emotions that intrigue and then disturb.

| May 21, 2019

In arguably one of the best performances of her career, Gyllenhaal is the key to the emotional, increasingly disturbing nature of The Kindergarten Teacher.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 13, 2019

Gyllenhaal leads her audience into uncharted territory.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 23, 2019

Maggie Gyllenhaal never disappoints, and that's certainly true in The Kindergarten Teacher, an understated character study with a lot to say but no easy answers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 21, 2019

Sara Colangelo replaces the intricate planes in continuity of Navad Lapid by careful focus under an oppressive photography in claustrophobic spaces. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 12, 2019

[Colangelo] has planed away the story's hard edges and given us a very earnest translation of what should have been a highly provocative theme.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 8, 2019

[Maggie Gyllenhaal's] best since Secretary. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 8, 2019