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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Slant MagazineDiego SemereneSlant MagazineDiego SemereneChildhood in Peter Lataster and Petra Lataster-Czisch's documentary is the terrain of contradiction and ambiguity.
- 90The Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungThe Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungThe result is a lovely, upbeat, even life-affirming film. It's a work which certainly doesn't soft-pedal the less appealing sides of children's behavior, but shows that empathy, given appropriate circumstances and resources, can be taught just as effectively as arithmetic and spelling.
- 90Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganScreen DailyFionnuala HalliganThe Latasters rarely put a foot wrong - from their static opening shot in the town of Hapert to the final frames of Miss Kiet in her classroom, this is a beautifully-judged piece.
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawMiss Kiet’s Children is a lovely film.
- 80Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlMuch like a day at elementary school, this vérité wonder called Miss Kiet’s Children is exhausting, heartening, raucous, tender, occasionally dull, sometimes tearful, and ultimately a vital public good.
- 60The New York TimesBen KenigsbergThe New York TimesBen KenigsbergAs in Nicolas Philibert’s similar French documentary “To Be and to Have” (2002), the relative absence of conflict in the interactions between a seasoned teacher and wonderful pupils grows tedious at feature length, and there is — presumably by design — relatively little meat on this documentary’s bones.