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Reader, The (2008) Rank 3 Reviews
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Times Online
The latter, it transpires, was once a Nazi prison guard, and her show trial, in the mid-1960s, is the dramatic heart of the film. ...read the complete Reader movie review at Times Online
E! Online
The Reader remains riveting as long as exquisite Winslet stays on screen. ...read the complete Reader movie review at E! Online
Channel 4 Film
Visually The Reader is a treat, twin cinematographers Roger Deakins and Chris Menges steeping the film in nostalgic sepia tones that give way to a bleak, elemental austerity. ...read the complete Reader movie review at Channel 4 Film
Week in Rewind
Unfortunately, the film also is pockmarked by a shaky script that becomes less involving in its second half. Thatâs a disappointment, but it doesnât ruin the movie. ...read the complete Reader movie review at Week in Rewind
Time Out London
'The Reader' has been called a Holocaust film but that's not entirely accurate. ...read the complete Reader movie review at Time Out London
Seacoast Newspapers
The most dramatic bits are in the past and weâre told of, not shown, them. Instead, we watch Michael with his friends at high school or flirting with a fellow student at law school. ...read the complete Reader movie review at Seacoast Newspapers
jackiekcooper.com (Jackie K. Cooper)
âThe Readerâ is a film that will stay with you long after you have finished viewing it. Winslet and Kross are excellent in their roles while Fiennes is only so so. ...read the complete Reader movie review at jackiekcooper.com (Jackie K. Cooper)
Creative Loafing
The Reader is a thorny story, and its failing isn't because it elects to answer key questions about its characters in shocking fashion -- after all, many great movies are about less-than-admirable figures -- but because it waves off these revelations with ...read the complete Reader movie review at Creative Loafing
Empire Online
The epitome of middle-brow âqualityâ drama â admirable within its limitations, but Bernard Schlinkâs Oprah Winfrey Book Club-approved book wasnât exactly literature, as this isnât exactly cinema. ...read the complete Reader movie review at Empire Online
Jo Reviews
The first half of the film is mysterious and awkward. Once the storyline gets in motion however the film becomes much more interesting and intense. David Kross and Ralph Fiennes both offered stellar performances as Michael. ...read the complete Reader movie review at Jo Reviews
Kansas City Star
Despite a quietly heartbreaking performance from Kate Winslet and a talented director and screenwriter, âThe Readerâ feels more like a thumb sucker than a piece of vital moviemaking. ...read the complete Reader movie review at Kansas City Star
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by David Foughty on December 07, 2009
Stephen Daldry knows how to tell a story, knows how important it is to make each of those characters relevant and indispensable, more importantly, emotions are finely portrayed, but it is the cerebral quality of his work that both impresses and irritates ...
by Joseph P. Menta, ... on November 13, 2009
This beautifully acted and shot film is laced with complex characterizations and complex emotional situations, making it a breath of fresh air in today's increasingly simple cinematic landscape. Thematically, the movie doesn't necessarily say that ...
by Donald Liston "Do... on November 11, 2009
The Reader is a film made in Germany, by Germans and reflects a more accurate view of German attitudes than anything that has ever come out of Hollywood. It may not be what Americans have stored in their stereotypical vision of Germans being repentent ...
by Angela E. Hampton on October 12, 2009
it was a movie in which you could not help but think about it and analyze it for a couple of days. ...
by John W. A. Palmer on August 18, 2009
Once the viewer has travelled past the stage-setting erotic images, the angst of the heroine becomes very vivid. Hers is a supremely formidable intellect shackeled by the inability to READ!! Ther is also a smidgeon of "Third Reich" mystic in her initial ...
by bernie "xyzzy" on August 16, 2009
The story based on a popular novel "Der Vorleser" by Bernhard Schlink, takes place over several decades from the 1950's through the 1990's.
We start with a boy Michael Berg (David Kross) who is helped home by a streetcar ticket puncher Hanna Schmitz ...
by Raynesha Mcghee-r... on August 14, 2009
When I 1st saw "the Reader" @ a Movie Theatre Last year,It was Sooo Touchin About a Story Of A Brief But Intense Affair Between An Older Woman & A 15-Year-old Boy In Germany,1959 and I Really enjoyed that Movie.I'm Glad that I've Gotten the Dvd which I ...
by Robin Mackey on July 08, 2009
If you've read through many other reviews then you already know the story and know what the movie is about. I loved this movie because it is really a romance a tragic romance and its also much more. Mostly it lingers in the mind about loving someone ...
by B. Bryant on June 27, 2009
I will keep my review small, but I will express how brilliant I felt this movie is. I was so intrigued I couldn't miss a single second of this film. Kate Winslet was breathtaking at her role, I can see where some people may find this movie offensive on ...
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