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Review of by Joe Lozito for Big Picture Big Sound — 10 Dec 2008

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A young boy in post-war Germany has a torrid affair with an older woman, only to find out years later that she's a Nazi war criminal, in director Stephen Daldry's overwrought adaptation of the Bernhard Schlink novel.

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This review of The Reader (2008) was written by and published by Big Picture Big Sound on 10 Dec 2008.

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