Review of Child 44 (2015) by Tir Na N — 07 Aug 2015

Loved it. Intelligent, excellent acting, great plot, historical subject matter important, story keeps moving...

This review of Child 44 (2015) was written by Tir Na N on 07 Aug 2015.

Child 44 has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Leo K (530) on 19 Mar 2016

This is less a crime movie, and more a portrayal of 1953 Soviet Russia, and the horrific arrests by the police during the time…

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By Hugo Hernández Valdivia (119) for Cinexcepción (119) on 13 Dec 2017

an anachronistic and failed proposal; worse: it sounds false and feels false. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Ricardo Martín P (28) on 18 Mar 2018

Great setting, acting, with a lousy script…

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By Eagleeyeviking (471) on 24 Apr 2017

The film benefits when it focuses on the child murders instead of rapidly introducing and resolving new characters and subplots without allowing…

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By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 01 Apr 2016

Hardy and Rapace provide a solid emotional anchor as a couple brought together by fear and tightened by survival instinct…

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By Iain B (374) on 06 Feb 2017

A flawed film perhaps, especially in the way it rushes through bits of the book it would rather ignore in the first 20 minutes or so, but a…

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By Jarrin R (161) on 22 Apr 2016

Good watch. Quality costume, set design and camera work. Hardy, Oldman and Rapaci can act. Dialogue and screenplay are weak…

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By Kristóf K (2) on 14 May 2017

Basicly, before I saw Child 44 I was a quite big fan of Tom Hardy. Now He is my favourite actor…

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By Thomas B (1,990) on 21 Jul 2016

** It has some serious problems, such as awful direction and a running time that makes the movie drag…

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By Penny P (30) on 27 Sep 2017

Apart from annoying fake Russian accents, the film isn't a bad rendition of the book…

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