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The Reader (Daldry, 2009)

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Still from the 2008 Stephen Daldry drama film The Reader starring Kate Winslet

This week back in 2009, I reviewed The Reader for the Capital Times newspaper:

If you are on the look out for an intelligent, serious and impressively well-made drama that will stimulate and move you (and of course you are, or you wouldn’t be reading this) then The Reader will fit your bill perfectly. The last of the big Oscar contenders to hit our shore…

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