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      • The Reader is a fine and admirable film, but the curious mix of white-hot sexuality and bitter-cold remorse makes for a curiously unsatisfying dramatic experience.
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  2. Dec 23, 2008 · Kate Winslet and David Kross in "The Reader." Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. The crucial decision in "The Reader" is made by a 24-year-old youth, who has information that might help a woman about to be sentenced to life in prison, but withholds it. He is ashamed to reveal his affair with this woman. By making this decision, he shifts ...

  3. Jan 9, 2009 · 63% Tomatometer 204 Reviews 79% Audience Score 100,000+ Ratings Michael Berg (David Kross), a teen in postwar Germany, begins a passionate but clandestine affair with Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet...

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  4. Our review: Parents say ( 9 ): Kids say ( 2 ): The Reader is going to be a tough sell for audiences. It starts out focused on the erotic relationship between a 15-year-old and a woman twice his age before turning into a wordy, wrenching drama about guilt, shame, and responsibility.

    • David Kross, Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes
    • Stephen Daldry
    • Weinstein Co.
  5. The Reader - Movie Reviews | Rotten Tomatoes. The Reader Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review. Although the film offers...

  6. 9/10. Winslet Impressive In This Two-Movies-In-One Story. ccthemovieman-1 3 May 2009. Kate Winslet is just outstanding in this very interesting film that is almost two stories-in-one. The first part is a sexual story of an older woman having affairs with a teenage boy and the second part is her war crimes tale and what happens afterward.

  7. Dec 9, 2008 · 2h 4m. By Manohla Dargis. Dec. 9, 2008. “The Reader” is a scrupulously tasteful more on that word tasteful later film about an erotic affair that turns to love. It is also, more obliquely,...

  8. Nov 30, 2008 · Movie Reviews ‘The Reader’: Film Review. The lively, nonlinear structure imposed by screenwriter David Hare and tight, focused direction from Stephen Daldry make this an engaging period drama ...

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