The Reader
When he falls ill on his way home from school, 15 year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. Nearly a decade later, he re-encounters Hanna as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
1967, Dresden, German Democratic Republic
1950, Weimar, Germany
1988
15 October 1990, Berlin, Germany
20 May 1958, Arnsberg, Westphalia, Germany
6 October 1969
24 April 1967, Doncaster, England, UK
1955, Bad Laasphe, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
30 November 1959, Karl-Marx-Stadt, German Democratic Republic
1982, Hamburg, Germany
December 30, 2008
The trial's outcome leads us into a third act that continues to give renewed, rending meaning to the movie's title.
July 06, 2010
Stephen Daldry's film is sensitively realized and dramatically absorbing, but comes across as an essentially cerebral experience without gut impact.
September 28, 2011
A holocaust movie with a deep, twisting dive into a dense tangle of thorny moral, ethical, situational and emotional issues.
January 08, 2009
An airless vacuum labeled Serious Film
March 24, 2011
A film that will haunt you for months with its fleeting and subtle examinations on morality, love and guilt.
December 30, 2008
The Reader is a bold and provocative film and one of the most exquisite of 2008.
October 20, 2010
Manipulative and flawed, but interesting and occasionally moving.
January 05, 2009
Its issues are infinite and moveable. It's a bold and challenging work.
September 17, 2010
A decades-spanning drama that dives into the slippery human nature of lust, manipulation, retribution and doubt. "The Reader" is a phenomenally tragic story of people eternally connected, never knowing whether it's by true love or unshakable regret.
September 29, 2012
The film's exploration of the Holocaust's fallout on subsequent generations is harrowing.
April 08, 2009
If Winslet carries the complex psychological intrigue of the film on her shoulders, David Kross carries the heart of it on his.
