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The Onion (A.V. Club) | Tasha RobinsonAdd Critic to Favorites

Kross and Winslet's intense performances and Daldry's deliberately placid control of tone make the material work as a love (and hate) story as well as a metaphor.Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

The crucial decision in The Reader is made by a 24-year-old youth, who has information that might help a woman about to be sentenced to life in prison, but withholds it. He is ashamed to reveal his affair with this woman. By making this decision, he shifts the film's focus from the subject of German guilt about the Holocaust and turns it on the human race in general.Read the full review

USA Today | Claudia PuigAdd Critic to Favorites

Though the effort is uneven, it's a well-acted romance that becomes a less compelling courtroom drama.Read the full review

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