Quick Movie Reviews
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2/4
Logan D. McCoy - wrote on 06/18/2019
This contrived and deceitful romantic drama is ultimately derailed by its Nazi war crime plot turn and seemingly shoehorned in anti-illiteracy message.
Rating of
2.5/4
Unknown - wrote on 09/12/2015
A well made and acted drama with zero emotional involvement. I couldn't get past the intentionally overbearing melodramatic tone. I never bought into their affair and the reveal of Hanna's 'inability' was obvious right from the start. There are some fine scenes, including a great closure to the story.
Rating of
3.5/4
Matthew Brady - wrote on 03/15/2014
The film is about a teenager in post WWII Germany is nursed back to health by Hanna, a woman twice his age. He discovers she like to be read to, and as their bond and passion deepen, they begin an affair until she suddenly disappears. Years later as a law student at the Nazi criminal trials, Hanna comes back into his life, as a defendant at the proceedings.Hugh Jack man song at the Oscars. "reader I have not seen the reader".
Rating of
3/4
mitchellyoung - wrote on 09/11/2012
Kate Winslet gives a searing and transparent performance that is the best part of this unsettling and engrossing movie. The film drags in the middle, but the relationships between the characters are portrayed by top-notch acting and the film takes a unique approach to an often cinematicly portrayed era of history.
Rating of
2.5/4
Amyaronson - wrote on 07/18/2011
Dear David Kross, You are the luckiest 18 year old boy on the planet. Most grown men would kill to be you, even though you are German. I hope you are gay so that you didn't have to go through the sheer embarrassment of being naked with Kate Winslet all the time. You should have been nominated for an Oscar. Dear Kate Winslet, You are so naked all the time. You are the best young-ish actress right now. This was not quite your best performance, but it's about time you won an Oscar. Dear Stephen Daldry, This movie was pretty good. You know. Decent. Love, Amy
Rating of
0.5/4
Bribaba - wrote on 05/03/2011
Crass, preposterous and poorly directed and these are some of the more generous thoughts on this piffle. Dear Kate must have got her Oscar for best nips, though in fairness she did her best trying to portray three different characters, each distinct from the other. It's tempting to blame the novel on which this is based. But from all accounts this is even worse as it makes more explicit the claim that Kate's character realised the holocaust was wrong simply by learning to read. Possibly the only thing that director Stephen Baldry did right was to excise this from the cinema version.
Rating of
3/4
Chris Kavan - wrote on 06/09/2010
Maybe it did go on a little long, but the characters and story made up for a the extra drag. What is the nature of redemption and forgiveness? This is one that will make you think after the credits have long passed, at least it should.
Rating of
2.5/4
cdrates - wrote on 09/22/2009
Winslet and fines were good, but the movie dragged on a little too much.
Rating of
3.5/4
Rob Lewboski - wrote on 07/01/2009
I watched the reader the other night and I have to say it started out somewhat weird to me just A strange movie but it still felt fresh to me(given it has been summer and there has been some less than spectacular films out) fresh Dig from what I had been watching as the movie carried on it kept getting better and evoking Sadness and I felt for this film it brought out the emotions in you because there was real acting in it The thing that makes this movie so great is that it's A truly great story that will make you feel something and thats what movies are supposed to do.
Rating of
3/4
The Movie Man - wrote on 05/25/2009
Winslet was good, but she's all the film has to offer
