It's eerie, but strangely powerful. With this almost tailor-made script Maggie Gyllenhaal put good use with her skills, her character is so complex and daring and fragile, smart and naïve, and most of all referable, it's like she came straight out of a Christopher Nolan movie. It maybe far from mainstream but this movie certainly excelled from other Netflix titles, and for those who is willing to try, it's a good watch. And it's worth mentioning that the poems in the movie came by the hand of Vietnamese writer Vuong, went to see his works after the movie and some are literally breath taking.

This is a film that really struck close to home on a lot of levels.  In a nutshell the film is about a woman who has had a cultural and intellectual awakening later in life.  As she evolves into a new woman she struggles to coexist with those around her who do not see interested in bettering themselves. In the middle of all of this she meets a gifted student with whom she becomes obsessed.  I won't say much more than that as I don't want to give anything away.   I think the teacher wishes that she had a mentor in life that would have shown her parts of life that she had to discover on her own.   While I enjoy the process of discovery I often wish that I had someone along the way that would have encouraged it at a younger age.    I don't love the final scenes but the end did not take away from the how I felt about the film.   follow me at https://IHateBadMovies.com

A strange one. 'The Kindergarten Teacher' does an impressive job at making the situations portrayed uncomfortable, like I was literally cringing all the way through - and I mean that in a good way. I'm not entirely convinced it lands completely, but I did like watching it all play out and Maggie Gyllenhaal puts in a superb performance. It gets 8/10 thanks to Mags.

The little boy’s intuition was right to do what he did in the end! This should have been titled The Groomer. iykyk.

Some very convincing acting performances and interesting ideas behind the film - but the plot is so contrived at every turn that I find it hard to accept the film as a drama at all.