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(1 - 43) of 43 OFCS Rating: 60% Fresh Page   1   2.5/5 "(E)verything Schlink was trying to accomplish with his (book) is cast aside for more shots of Kate Winslet naked."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron B+ "Winslet and Kross commit wholeheartedly to their roles, which require substantial nudity and piercing communication of self without the crutch of words. It's sharp work from the actors, who play into Daldry's slow-burn design of sorrow magnificently."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf "Without [Kate] Winslet, The Reader would be just another literary adaptation that got high on its own self-importance."   PopMatters   Chris Barsanti B- "A flawed mix of a kind of German "Summer of '42" with a theatrically bound courtroom drama and aftermath, "The Reader's" lopsided before-and-after structure defeats part of its dramatic impact."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 3.5/5 "While the story includes illicit romance, war crimes and how contemporary Europeans deal with the guilt of World War II, the movie isn't as engrossing as it should be because it's consistently clinical and glum."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger B- "Succeeds on its own terms mainly because of Kate Winslet's earnest Oscar fixated performance."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 3/4 "Tells an involving, touching and unusual story, and tells it well."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman 3/5 "En el terreno en que la película triunfa sobre todo es en el de la reflexión, que se impone posteriormente al mero recuerdo de la anécdota que narra."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio C- "Whatever legitimacy the story once had must have been lost in translation, because what appears on the screen is a cold, artless lump."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider B "The film doesn't shove its message down your throat, and its prestige pic status belies its subtle intelligence."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov "Dismal"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce C+ "Intelligent and impeccably crafted but...also rather remote and chilly, the kind of film in which craft trumps heart...ultimately fails to do emotional justice to the subject it tackles."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 4/5 "Takes a different approach to the Holocaust with a distinctive thematic blend of secrets, sex, guilt, and betrayal."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat B+ "One of the most eloquent documents of personal awakening ever to be committed to celluloid."   Modern Fabulousity   Gabriel Shanks 3/4 "The Reader is closer to a near miss than a rousing success but, on balance, this is still worth seeing for those who enjoy complexity and moral ambiguity within the context of a melodrama."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2/4 "plodding and earnestly morose"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 3/5 "Literary adaptation tackles sex, shame, and guilt."   Common Sense Media   James Rocchi 3.5/4 "Packaged with a smart script, palpable tension and enough ambiguity to keep you guessing."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 5/10 "It tries for depth while holding your hand and glossing its surface; in the end, you get what you'd expect, which is a decent Holocaust-related drama, and not much more."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy 2/4 "A young boy in post-war Germany has a torrid affair with an older woman, only to find out years later that she's a Nazi war criminal, in director Stephen Daldry's overwrought adaptation of the Bernhard Schlink novel."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito 3/5 "This year's Atonement: a knotty prestige film with a literary pedigree and an outside shot at awards recognition."   Boxoffice Magazine   John P. McCarthy 2/4 "[The Reader] is positively goyish in its glassy eyed treatment of Jew killing, not that it aims to be anything more than an exercise in moral insurrection."   Bangitout.com   Jordan Hiller 1.5/5 "Epifaneiako ksysimo allis mias ekdohis tis ebraikis pligis poy prokalese i germaniki banaysotita, ayti ti fora employtismeni me eksanthropistiko erotiko proto misaoro, poy den kamoyflarei katholoy tis eksarseis symbatikotitas sto ksediploma, i tis melodra"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 4.5/5 "I have no doubt that the novel makes this movie seem but a glissando of a complex series of emotional notes, but I can say that I was torn up every which way by the end of it."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery B+ "The Reader hasn't been flawlessly adapted from the page, but the film is sure to inspire just as much debate as its source. Winslet's Hannah Schmitz is unforgettable."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 7/10 "At heart what makes the film powerful is Winslet in so strong a performance and so totally different from anything she has done in the past"   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper "Kate Winslet is extraordinary as a woman who is both brusquely adult and childishly vulnerable at the same time..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson .5/5 "The Reader is a cloaked male fantasy, in which a milf hides under spinster garb -- all for a 16-year-old's delight."   Film Threat   Matthew Sorrento 3/4 "Solid, stately, and respectable, but carefully, specifically designed to be absolutely adored for a certain demographic that isn't me."   TheMovieReport.com   Michael Dequina 2/4 "Director Stephen Daldry and screenwriter David Hare exhibit a continued inability to thrillingly translate literary forms to the screen."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 4/5 "Seu protagonista, um melancólico advogado, encerra em si mesmo toda a dor de seus conterrâneos em função de suas própria ações (ou inações) do passado."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 2/5 "A film that features an admittedly extraordinary performance from Kate Winslet surrounded by a lot of other stuff that doesn't work nearly as well as it should have."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 4.5/5 "An intelligent approach sets this intense drama apart from the crowd, recounting a morally complex story without telling us how to think"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 3/5 "Winslet creates a flawed and fascinating villain."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves C "Suffers chiefly from a distasteful thematic overemphasis, though not far behind is the film's rather insistent self-flattery."   Projection Booth   Rob Humanick B "Like the main character's feelings about themselves and each other, I too have mixed feelings about this film."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten B+ "Scripter David Hare's adaptation is so beautifully crafted, it makes me want to read the book."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford "Truth and guilt and responsibility are not just themes here, they are topics of debate and we keep returning to the seminar and the courtroom to hear those debates."   Parallax View   Sean Axmaker 3/5 "alternately painful, perplexing, awkward, melodramatic, and slow to overwhelm."   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell 8/10 "Unevenly paced yet morally complex, it dredges the depths of a legacy of responsibility and culpability."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 4/10 "Emotionally inert. And that is something that no film about sex and Nazis must ever be."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 43) of 43 OFCS Rating: 60% Fresh Page   1