- Studio: Weinstein Company, The
- Release Date: Dec 10, 2008
- Starring: Bruno Ganz, Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes
- Summary: The Reader opens in post-WWII Germany when teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. (The Weinstein Company)
- Director: Stephen Daldry
- Genre(s): Drama, Romance
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 19 out of 38
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Mixed: 17 out of 38
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Negative: 2 out of 38
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100Winslet deserves an Oscar for her amazing performance.
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60Provocatively intentioned, The Reader is a movie worth seeing - the kind of film you'll think about for days afterward. But when all is said and done, you're likely to wonder why the impact wasn't greater still.
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20Slow-acting poison. For the first third of the movie, you'll experience a not-unpleasant tingling in the extremities, giving way to an encroaching torpor. An hour in, your pupils will have shrunk to pinholes, and by the time the closing credits roll, you'll be capable only of a dim longing for the defibrillation paddles. Who would have thought a movie about a beautiful, frequently naked female Nazi could be so dull?
Score distribution:
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Positive: 26 out of 32
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Mixed: 3 out of 32
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Negative: 3 out of 32
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FredK10
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CarmineC5Peaking in a the sex was the only saving part of his film: bu evevn this left one conflicted....Ultimately, a boring overwrought film.
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MarkB.3
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