Similar to his work as a closeted gay man in The Blue Caftan, Saleh Bakri conveys a whirlwind of conflict and despair with just his eyes.

| Original Score: B | May 4, 2025

That spirit-crushing feeling of powerlessness is what director Nabulsi aims to fend off, admittedly through not always effective narrative means, but with emotional sincerity nonetheless.

| Apr 21, 2025

It’s incredibly heavy. At times, nearly unbearable in its realism. But it’s also beautiful, brave, and vital.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 18, 2025

Powerful, a kind of fiction version of 2024 Academy Award winning documentary "No Other Land." Saleh Baki is superb.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 18, 2025

Writer-director Farah Nabulsi ratchets up the tension, as well as the pain... She's given events a neatness and symmetry that seems unlikely in real life, but there's truth in the emotional trauma.

| Apr 17, 2025

While the film feels its length and some plot threads and characters are underwritten, Nabulsi nonetheless delivers with a work that straddles fiction and reality, capturing and affirming Palestinian life under occupation in the West Bank.

| Apr 17, 2025

The Teacher, in its best stretches, captures the intimate horrors of life under harrowing circumstances -- and the lifesaving power of the relationships that people still manage to forge and nurture.

| Apr 15, 2025

A Teacher is not the most finely crafted film, but it is a cri de cœur.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 11, 2025

The narrative has some structural issues, the lead performance from Saleh Bakri is sublime, as always.

| Apr 11, 2025

The Teacher is not what it sets out to be. It is too melodramatic, too bloated, and too messy to work. Still, we should be glad that this movie is getting a release.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Apr 11, 2025

Nabulsi’s film touches the heart but loses grip on the mind as it journeys to juggle more subplots than its hands can handle.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 11, 2025

While the threads all compel individually, the climax, in which Basem declares his determination to redress a past failure, is decidedly trite.

| Apr 10, 2025

The Teacher presents a fascinating character study, as well as an engaging moral dilemma about and interrogation of activism.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 10, 2025

One of the most adroitly written and directed political dramas in recent memory, The Teacher struggles to balance its narrative threads but never loses sight of the intention of the story being told and images being constructed.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 9, 2025

The political context of this first feature by British-Palestinian director Farah Nabulsi, who also wrote the screenplay, is so thoroughly appalling that it sometimes overshadows the 온라인카지노추천-style melodrama onscreen.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 1, 2024

Gripping and full of tension, The Teacher not only makes for a wonderful cinematic experience, but poses some all-important questions the wider world has seemingly avoided answering for too long.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 27, 2024

Perhaps the drama and its issues are a little small screen... But Nabulsi hits the dramatic beats with confidence and Bakri has genuine distinction.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 26, 2024

Despite some compelling central performances, the script unfortunately struggles to develop its ideas, leaving viewers with a scattershot plot that verges on the melodramatic.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 26, 2024

The immense moral and political pressures brought to bear on the Palestinian population ... bring to mind similar strains and terrors for people in those portions of Europe and elsewhere under Nazi rule during World War II.

| May 30, 2024

As with her BAFTA-winning short, The Present, the filmmaker offers a bleak perspective on the political and social injustices experienced by Palestinians. Yet, even at its most desolate, both films are anchored by the humanising portraits at its core.

| Apr 22, 2024