The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)
Storyline
Lisa Spinelli is a Staten Island teacher who is unusually devoted to her students. When she discovers one of her five-year-olds is a prodigy, she becomes fascinated with the boy, ultimately risking her family and freedom to nurture his talent.
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Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ajay Naidu, Michael Chernus, Daisy Tahan, Ato Blankson-Wood, Gael García Bernal, Samrat Chakrabarti, Rosa Salazar, Carson Grant, Anna Baryshnikov, McManus Woodend, Parker Sevak, Haley Murphy, Stefaniya Makarova, Sam Jules, Clark Carmichael, Aamira Martinez, Douglas Taurel, Nikhil Melnechuk, Libya Pugh, Ashley August, Avery Ilardi, Kea Trevett, Avishai Greenberg, Donovan Pierre Coleman, Gianna Jean, Shyaporn Theerakulstit, London Valentine
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Reviews
100
The Kindergarten Teacher is probably the only movie about poetry with an ending as tense as any thriller.
83
Gyllenhaal has been too good too often to label any one of her performances as her best, but she’s certainly never been better than she is here.
80
Rippling with psychological complexity and sneaky humor, this is a rich character study that takes constantly surprising turns.
80
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.
80
Writer-director Sara Colangelo’s intimate, slender drama withholds much about its main character, which allows Gyllenhaal to sketch the outline of a fractured soul.
