Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 188
Fresh: 116 | Rotten: 72
Despite Kate Winslet's superb portrayal, The Reader suggests an emotionally distant, Oscar-baiting historical drama.
Average Rating: 6/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 16
Despite Kate Winslet's superb portrayal, The Reader suggests an emotionally distant, Oscar-baiting historical drama.
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Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes star in The Hours director Stephen Daldry's haunting period drama concerning the relationship between a 15-year-old German boy and a mysterious woman twice his age, and the way that it grows doubly complex when the man reencounters the woman years later and discovers a shocking truth about her past. Based on author Bernhard Schlink's best-selling novel of the same name, the film opens on the character of Michael Berg (Ralph Fiennes) in middle age -- cold, remote,
Dec 10, 2008 Wide
Apr 14, 2009
$34.1M
The Weinstein Co./MGM
All Critics (192) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (119) | Rotten (73) | DVD (8)
The trial's outcome leads us into a third act that continues to give renewed, rending meaning to the movie's title.
The Reader is a bold and provocative film and one of the most exquisite of 2008.
As undeniably tasteful as The Reader is, it's also an absorbing and finally moving account of how one man comes to terms with both history and his story.
Surrounding the Holocaust morality play is another story that's more modestly scaled and, in this age of unashamed romance between older women and younger men, more contemporary.
With this film Daldry proves himself the screen's reigning master at showing passion thwarted or repressed, this time to a propulsive Philip Glass-lite score from Nico Muhly.
At times The Reader is an interesting exploration of both the needs of man and the limits of law. But there are so many dead spots in the film after it gets rolling that the rolling too often comes to a stop.
A holocaust movie with a deep, twisting dive into a dense tangle of thorny moral, ethical, situational and emotional issues.
Winslet fashions Hanna as the most banal and mundane of evildoers.
A film that will haunt you for months with its fleeting and subtle examinations on morality, love and guilt.
Manipulative and flawed, but interesting and occasionally moving.
A decades-spanning drama that dives into the slippery human nature of lust, manipulation, retribution and doubt. "The Reader" is a phenomenally tragic story of people eternally connected, never knowing whether it's by true love or unshakable regret.
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En el terreno en que la película triunfa sobre todo es en el de la reflexión, que se impone posteriormente al mero recuerdo de la anécdota que narra.
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 up every which way by the end of it.
Underage desire converges with perverse passions of the political sort, where in the case of one's country, love is basically blind. A remarkably brilliant and subversive guilt by erotic association thriller.
Winslet creates a flawed and fascinating villain.
An intriguing journey: love story without love, war story without war, and ultimately a meditation upon our inability to normalise an understanding of what life would have been like for those living in Nazi Germany.
This movie invites you to unlock the mystery. Would you be willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to protect a secret?
I knew nothing about The Reader before watching and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by it. It's a very complex story when it comes to the emotional turmoil and uncomfortable human issues involved but it is told so simply it is absolutely captivating. This is also credit to the actors who were deservedly
January 16, 2012Super Reviewer
After long thought and decision, I have finally come to write my review on The Reader. Originally, I was about to give this film a 70% or an 80%, but when I thought about the film, something about the film was nudging me to give this film a lower rating. Later, after I thought over the film, I knew what that was.
July 3, 2011
Super Reviewer
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