The Kindergarten Teacher's reviews
Media reviews
The Guardian
The Kindergarten Teacher is probably the only movie about poetry with an ending as tense as any thriller.
Indiewire
While Gyllenhaal's work should be enough to satisfy anyone wondering why this movie needed to be made twice, Colangelo makes fine use of the story's new American context.
The Hollywood Reporter
Rippling with psychological complexity and sneaky humor, this is a rich character study that takes constantly surprising turns.
Vulture
Lisa?s drive is more than biological; it?s intellectual and emotional, and that?s what keeps what often risks becoming camp madness in an identifiably human place ? almost all the way to the end.
The Playlist
Colangelo?s adaptation continually feels like it?s missing something.... Luckily though, Collangelo has Gyllenhaal, who is exceptional at times here, to carry it through.
Rolling Stone
It's hard not to think "WTF?!" in this story of a teacher who discovers a child prodigy and becomes obsessed. But Gyllenhaal is a sorceress of an actress worthy of following through the film's twisty paths of light and dark.
Entertainment Weekly
An intriguing but ambiguous portrait of a flawed, fascinating woman who knows herself either too well or not at all.
New York Times
Gyllenhaal - who is never out of our sight - somehow makes us all her accomplices, imprisoning our sympathies even when Lisa's inappropriate behavior escalates to inexcusable.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote