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- 2013
- Not Rated
- Oscilloscope
- 1 h 15 m
- 2013
- Not Rated
- Oscilloscope
- 1 h 15 m
- 2013
- Not Rated
- Oscilloscope
- 1 h 15 m
- 2013
- Not Rated
- Oscilloscope
- 1 h 15 m
A Teacher
47
6.0
Where to Watch
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
47
33% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
60% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
47
33% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
60% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
What makes the film work is that this potentially lurid material is treated at all times with sensitivity and probing psychological seriousness.
By continually deferring dramatic tension, the filmmaker puts more weight on the movie’s closing scenes — which are abrupt but true to life — than they can handle.
Burdge is left to do much of the heavy lifting in terms of inviting the audience into her protagonist’s shaky state, and her performance boasts a remarkable emotional precision throughout — if ever there’s a reason to seek this one out, it would be for her.
A Teacher feels a bit like watching some fool cross a busy freeway on foot over and over again for an hour and change. There’s little to do but await the inevitable splat.
Writer-director Hannah Fidell’s somber drama of an illicit romance earns credit for being a serious discussion of a tabloid-rich topic, but the movie runs out of places to go.
Less a master class in inappropriate high-school relationships than the CliffsNotes version, A Teacher isn’t going to tell you anything Nabokov or "Election" didn’t.
Long on atmosphere and short on believability.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 User Ratings
6.0
46% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
31% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
23% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 User Ratings
6.0
46% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
31% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
23% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
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Release Date Sep 6, 2013
Duration 1 h 15 m
Rating Not Rated
Awards
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Dallas International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Oldenburg Film Festival
• 1 Nomination