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      • Although the muddled, complicated subplots spin the film in too many directions to make Child 44 a truly successful adaptation of its source material, the allure of its leading performances are enough to make it worth a watch.
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  1. Apr 17, 2015 · In 1950s Soviet Russia, secret police agent Leo Demidov (Tom Hardy) loses everything when he refuses to denounce his wife, Raisa (Noomi Rapace) as a traitor.

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  3. Apr 17, 2015 · The USSR’s main orphan in “Child 44” is Leo Demidov (Tom Hardy). His parents died in the Holodomor famine in the Ukraine in the 1930s, but he found a new family within Russian military, and was deemed a war hero when seen on newspapers brandishing a Soviet flag after the Reichstag in 1945.

  4. Apr 15, 2015 · Back in the USSR. Adapted from the best-selling book by Tom Rob Smith, this $50 million Ridley Scott production does benefit from strong performances and a few worthy scenes that director Daniel...

  5. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Jordan Brooks Vague Visages. A Kafka-esque condemnation of Stalin’s government ham-handedly plopped into a John le Carré spy thriller, Child 44 is...

  6. Apr 16, 2015 · The most fascinating thing about “Child 44” is probably its setting and the idea of investigating a murder when murder isn’t acknowledged (it’s a toxic byproduct of a Capitalist society).

  7. Apr 16, 2015 · In “Child 44,” set in the 1950s, a Soviet secret-police agent exiled to a remote town with his wife tries to track a serial killer of boys.

  8. Apr 15, 2015 · Film Review: ‘Child 44’. Tom Hardy adopts a Russian accent in this dark Soviet thriller, in which a serial killer isn't nearly as scary as the system that refuses to investigate him. Part ...

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