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Dec 23, 2008 · Many of the critics of "The Reader" seem to believe it is all about Hanna's shameful secret. No, not her past as a Nazi guard. The earlier secret that she essentially became a guard to conceal. Others think the movie is an excuse for soft-core porn disguised as a sermon. Still others say it asks us to pity Hanna.
Literary adaptation tackles sex, shame, and guilt. Read Common Sense Media's The Reader review, age rating, and parents guide.
- David Kross, Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes
- Stephen Daldry
- Weinstein Co.
Jan 9, 2009 · Michael Berg (David Kross), a teen in postwar Germany, begins a passionate but clandestine affair with Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet), an older woman who enjoys having classic novels read to her....
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Screenwriter David Hare deftly navigates the tricky moral waters with the same poetic eloquence he brought to The Hours. Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 6, 2019. Kelly Jane Torrance...
The site's consensus states, "Despite Kate Winslet's superb portrayal, The Reader suggests an emotionally distant, Oscar-baiting historical drama." [22] At Metacritic the film was assigned a weighted average score of 58 out of 100, based on 38 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
Nov 30, 2008 · The Reader is a well-told coming-of-age yarn about a young boy growing up in postwar West Germany and experiencing his first love affair. But the outreach is to an issue crucial in that country...
The Reader is quite a complex movie. One can call it a romantic-drama but there are other complexities that make an interpretation of this work difficult. At the heart of these complexities is the protagonist Hanna Schmitz played by Kate Winslet.
