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- While the acting's good and the period setting is impressively executed, Child 44 lacks a compelling mystery. At almost two-and-a-half hours long, the story is packed with unnecessary subplots and scenes that do nothing to progress the plot. Even when the story is interesting, it's often marred by dim presentation and faulty Russian accents.
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Apr 17, 2015 · Powered by JustWatch. This weekend’s Communist period piece “Child 44” has suffered an incriminating fate that even “Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2” avoided: Russia banned it right before its release, stating that the film reflected upon the nation with evocations of Mordor (the evil land from J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings”), and ...
Apr 17, 2015 · Rated: 4/5 Aug 19, 2022 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review With its pointedly non-Slavic cast, Child 44 features an impressive roster of actors delivering muddled Russian accents,...
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Apr 16, 2015 · Crime, Drama, Thriller. R. 2h 17m. By A.O. Scott. April 16, 2015. “ Child 44 ,” directed by Daniel Espinosa from a screenplay by Richard Price, is an English-language movie set in Russia ...
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All Critics. 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,...
Apr 15, 2015 · ‘Child 44’: Film Review. Tom Hardy plays a Russian officer tracking a killer in Daniel Espinosa’s Soviet thriller. By Jordan Mintzer. April 15, 2015 9:00am. It’s difficult to tell what may...
Apr 17, 2015 · The film was directed by Daniel Espinosa and written by Richard Price; it's based on the novel, of the same name, by Tom Rob Smith (the first of a trilogy of books). It also costars Joel Kinnaman, Vincent Cassel and Jason Clarke. The movie was a bomb at the box office, and got mostly negative reviews from critics, but I enjoyed it.
Apr 17, 2015 · April 17, 20155:03 AM ET. Heard on Morning Edition. By. Kenneth Turan. 3-Minute Listen. Playlist. It's taken 7 years for the best-selling literary thriller Child 44 to make it to the screen....
