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By R. L. Shaffer (285) for IGN DVD (552) on 19 Oct 2010

Manipulative and flawed, but interesting and occasionally moving…

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By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 16 Sep 2010

A decades-spanning drama that dives into the slippery human nature of lust, manipulation, retribution and doubt…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 09 Sep 2010

Can a formidable actress redeem a pile of solemn erotic kitsch…

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By Mark Jenkins (515) for NPR.org (106) on 05 Jul 2010

A British movie of a well-reviewed German novel about issues both moral and bookish…

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By Wesley Morris (1,967) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 24 Jan 2010

After a sensuous introductory act, The Reader descends into a series of dismaying contradictions regarding the moral toxins of the Holocaust…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 02 Dec 2009

Although the script works in a couple of pages of collegiate-level ethical debate about the question of German guilt, what the movie is really…

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By Chris Kaltenbach (562) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 26 Oct 2009

The Reader is ponderously self-important and smugly Socratic, brimming with unfinished sentences and pregnant pauses; if a single character…

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By Pete Hammond (936) for Hollywood.com (1,014) on 07 Sep 2009

Daldry's directorial restraint and power perfectly serves David Hare's impressive screenplay and delivers a memorable movie-going experience…

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By Karina Montgomery (580) for Cinerina (549) on 30 May 2009

I have no doubt that the novel makes this movie seem but a glissando of a complex series of emotional notes, but I can say that I was torn…

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By Peter Keough (994) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 22 Apr 2009

The film lingers more on Winslet's nudity than on the nature of guilt, and it offers no reason to care for the lumpen criminal or the callow lover…

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By Kristin Tillotson (85) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 07 Apr 2009

If Winslet carries the complex psychological intrigue of the film on her shoulders, David Kross carries the heart of it on his…

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By Rob Gonsalves (1,031) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 24 Mar 2009

Winslet creates a flawed and fascinating villain…

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By Simon Weaving (195) for Screenwize (216) on 21 Mar 2009

An intriguing journey: love story without love, war story without war, and ultimately a meditation upon our inability to normalise an understanding…

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By Keith Cohen (225) for Entertainment Spectrum (633) on 21 Mar 2009

This movie invites you to unlock the mystery. Would you be willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to protect a secret…

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By Evan Williams (98) for The Australian (781) on 27 Feb 2009

It is a majestically sombre, always gripping film, told with immense restraint and no hint of sensationalism…

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By Chris Bumbray (988) for JoBlo's Movie Emporium (1,959) on 27 Feb 2009

Despite my problems with The Reader, it's still a film well worth seeing, although far from Oscar worthy…

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By Connie Ogle (690) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 22 Feb 2009

The Reader doesn't do enough to explore the guilt and betrayal the adult Michael feels over the acts of his elders…

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By Daniel M. Kimmel (1,403) for The Jewish Advocate (24) on 22 Feb 2009

it is a movie of incredible moral obtuseness…

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By Julie Rigg (120) for MovieTime, ABC Radio National (314) on 20 Feb 2009

The Reader does not succeed as a coherent film, despite some fine work by actors and the filmmakers' best intentions…

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By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 20 Feb 2009

The film...hankers after something redemptive…

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