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Movie review: ‘The Teachers’ Lounge’ a nerve-wracking school drama

Leonie Benesch, left, and Leo Stettnisch in a scene from "The Teachers' Lounge."

You can read it online, or — better — you can sweat it out in its completed form when it opens in wide release this week. Either way, the screenplay for the German thriller “The Teachers’ Lounge” is so tight it squeaks, each new development in a series of unfortunate events clicking into place like a turn of a Rubik’s Cube — which provides the film with a visual leitmotif. Not since “The Bear” has there been anything so universally described as nerve-wracking, in such admiring

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