Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
DVD Release Date: April 14, 2009
Stats: 13,335 reviews
Going way too far with the rating, I know...but truth is I loved this film. I was just postponing watching it because I highly doubted its greatness, but finally seeing it made me think otherwise.
Kate Winslet is wonderful - she deserved the Globe truly and absolutely so - maybe...( read more)
Very good movie. Kate Winslet was amazing. It was sad, but it told a good story.
Given the hype, a mildly disappointing foray into German guilt with a faintly preposterous 'reveal' . While I could watch Kate peel potatoes for 2 hours I wasn't actually carried along by her performance. Given that interpreting her facial expressions is all you have to get a sen...( read more)
I'm not the huge Winslet fan half the world seems to be - not that I don't like her, but I don't think she's the second coming. But in this, she was INCREDIBLE! The best performance I've ever seen out of her. I liked this movie - it did something a bit novel with the very, very p...( read more)
Being illiterate did not excuse her of her crimes. However, I think her life would have taken a totally different path if she had been able to read.
What definietly bugs me, and certainly will bug you, will not be the lack of uneasiness in the sexual beginnings of Michael, but the difficult path and decision between redention, love, and forgiveness. I would love it more if onlt I had had an affair with a boy younger than me! ...( read more)
An impressive film in a number of ways, though all the better for my avoiding all the hype surrounding it's release in the cinema. I can't remember if Kate Winslet won an oscar for this or the Revolutionary Road film (the two of which are completely mixed up in my head - joining ...( read more)
Finely nuanced and calibrated performances from Winslet (with a convincing German accent) and Kross notwithstanding, this is one film audiences won't embrace nearly as emphatically as it embraces itself. full review
The Reader, based on Bernhard Schlink's novel, is a tragedy told with such precise remoteness, you feel as if you're watching it from across the room. full review
There is a sense of ambiguity at the core of The Reader that makes it all the more brutal, all the more honest in its deflowering of love and what one imagines love ought to be instead of what it too ... full review
Surrounding the Holocaust morality play is another story that's more modestly scaled and, in this age of unashamed romance between older women and younger men, more contemporary. full review
I believe the movie may be demonstrating a fact of human nature: Most people, most of the time, all over the world, choose to go along. We vote with the tribe. full review
After a sensuous introductory act, The Reader descends into a series of dismaying contradictions regarding the moral toxins of the Holocaust -- which still pollute postwar Germany. full review
Told, coolly...the novel was hugely popular as well as controversial worldwide and an Oprah's Book Club selection besides. I'm afraid it needed a different set of interpreters to make any emotional se... full review
It appears that the filmmakers have taken Hannah Arendt's notion of the 'banality of evil' way too literally. full review
A triumphant performance by Kate Winslet anchors the year's most disturbing Holocaust movie. full review
The Reader:is a haunting story about thruth and reconciliation,about how one generation comes to terms with the crimes of another.
Lena Olin in The Reader:impeccable,supporting performances "from Bruno Ganz and Lena Olin amongothers",his final scene with Lena Olin a concentracion camp victim,tis memarkable.
Beautiful and perfect movie....
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