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The Reader
Directed by Stephen Daldry
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom. From TMDB
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The Reader is a 2008 drama romance film, directed by Stephen Daldry, starring Ralph Fiennes, Kate Winslet and David Kross.
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42 of 42 · most liked firstQuiz earlier: 'Kate Winslet won an Oscar for which film?' *Our Ma's hand shoots up* (We know it's The Reader and our Ma is 100% going to say Titanic) 'Mrs Big Pants' *stunned silence*
neutral · AI labelView post →"Only one thing can make a soul complete and that is love." Movie 🎥 : The Reader (2008) Director : Stephen Daldry 🌇 🧡 (Photo by Kirpal 💌)
neutral · AI labelView post →He would make me help him decide what movie to see on a Friday evening: standing behind my desk, making me scroll through the Reader listings on my computer, hemming and hawing about what might be good. It’s not that he couldn’t use a website. I think he couldn’t process the information alone
neutral · AI labelView post →This is so bleak. Rosenbaum was the main film writer for the Reader for DECADES. Legacy media is in such a bad place when they don’t have room for a monthly piece from one of the giants of the medium. jonathanrosenbaum.net/2026/03/movi... jonathanrosenbaum.net/2026/03/movi...
neutral · AI labelView post →Michael (David Kross) takes a ride with Hanna (Kate Winslet) in the 2008 film The Reader #BicycleBirthday Kate Winslet Born October 5, 1975
neutral · AI labelView post →My ⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of THE READER boxd.it/bClm6n Forget Fiennes. Forget Winslet. Emotional core & true lead is German actor David Kross in terrific performance. Story of accountability, responsibility & reconciling difficult truths about history & those we love. But half-baked in execution. #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →at the Reader I got to compare the film The Long Walk and the novel. The film is more directly about antifascist resistance—though it also presents a more simplistic heroic narrative which the book sees as part of fascist propaganda. chicagoreader.com/film-tv/movi...
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's film The Reader (2008)
neutral · AI labelView post →Licorice Pizza: dece but meandering and problematic TMNT: stone cold classic of my youth, cowabunga forever Weapons: probably my 2nd favorite movie this year next to Sinners, fantastic and fun horror movie The Reader: very well-acted drama, but also meandering and problematic #lastfourwatched
neutral · AI labelView post →We don't talk enough about how shit THE READER is as film.
negative · AI labelView post →#NowWatching THE READER (2008). Director: Stephen Daldry. Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes. Sexed-up "prestige" piece set in post-WWII Germany. Won Winslet an Oscar, but certainly isn't her best work. Saw in theater, but not since. Let's see if it's better than I remember. #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorite film performances from the 2000s. Kate Winslet, Hanna Schmitz, "The Reader" (directed by Stephen Daldry). #movies #films #thereader #stephendaldry #katewinslet
neutral · AI labelView post →for the Reader wrote about The Uprising, a film about a peasant revolt which doesn't seem to care at all about peasants. or people. or politics. lots of shaky cam mob scenes though. chicagoreader.com/film-tv/revi...
neutral · AI labelView post →Suddenly I remembered the movie The Reader and the series The End of Fxxxing World. This one is an #aruani old sketch.
neutral · AI labelView post →#MatthewsMonthofMusic 28/10 An instrumental that'd make a good soundtrack for a movie scene Bill Ryder-Jones, The Reader (Malbork) Love the undercurrent of threat mixed with something more romantic youtu.be/0RxO7ZQA63g?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Besides his outstanding work as a cinematographer, Roger Deakins is also a fine photographer. He took this shot during the filming of Sam Mendes' The Reader, in 2007. It has nothing to do with the film.
neutral · AI labelView post →I don’t know how “The Reader”, of all movies, ended up being the best film I watched last week 🤷🏼♂️ #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
positive · AI labelView post →(On the phone with Aypo (the Reader)) Yeah no Mulan is all about crickets. …Because a cricket shows up at the start. No I haven’t watched the rest of the movie, I always stop because I don’t respect the gay dragon’s sassy attitude!
neutral · AI labelView post →Kate Winslet in The Reader (2008) #Film #AdorableLegs #nsfw #ErotiArt #Erotica
neutral · AI labelView post →Cannot imagine where else I'd pitch the film stories I've written for the Reader. When I pitched my first story on local movie exhibition inequities, there wasn't a single other outlet that came to mind where I'd bring something like that who'd actually take it.
neutral · AI labelView post →just finished watching the movie The Reader (with Ralph fiennes) - these films are important and yet so awful.
negative · AI labelView post →ironically that movie took away one of the great benefits of illiteracy, which is not being able to read THE READER
negative · AI labelView post →and at the Reader, reviewed Backspot, D.W. Waterson's queer Indigenous cheerleader drama. It's pretty great, both because of the ways in which it is reproduces sport film beats past and in the ways it doesn't. chicagoreader.com/film/review-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Interesting - not seen that version. I seem to recall she played dim well in The Reader but I so disliked the film that I have blanked most of it.
negative · AI labelView post →#NowWatching2025 Today was a Stephen Daldry, Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep kind of day: - The Hours (2002) - The Reader (2008) - The Iron Lady (2011) - Still Alice (2014)
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie review: The Reader, starring Kate Winslet. 10/10. No notes.
positive · AI labelView post →Ok now we’re at the point of recreating specific incidents from the actual holocaust. An event like this what the film The Reader revolved around, decades after it happened
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm also reminded of Extras, when Kate Winslet said she was just doing a Holocaust movie to win an Oscar, and then a few years later that actually happened with The Reader lmao
neutral · AI labelView post →Gervais nailed it in Extras when he had Winslet playing herself acting in a Nazi movie “just for the Oscar”. Later, emceeing the award ceremony where she won a gong for The Reader, he got to crow “see, I told you!”
neutral · AI labelView post →My ★★★½ review of The Reader (2008) on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/fYdtr7)
positive · AI labelView post →The Reader (2008) Directed by Stephen Daldry https://onesheet.org/movie/the-reader-2008/
neutral · AI labelView post →Name A Movie, TV Movie or Series you've watched MORE THAN ONCE within the LAST 10 YEARS beginning with letter R (Add a Poster) 😍😍📽📺 Mine: The Reader (2008; Yours: (Add a Poster)
neutral · AI labelView post →The Reader reveals a season of “festive film magic” in its brand-new Christmas pop-up Cinema under a cosy canopy. 🍿 READ MORE: tinyurl.com/mry6d5nw
neutral · AI labelView post →10 comfort movies 1. Titanic 2. Midsommar 3. My Girl 4. Room 5. Schindler’s List 6. Inside Out 7. The Reader 8. The Goonies 9. Legally Blonde 10. Jumanji (1995) Repost with your top 10! #filmsky #moviesky #film
neutral · AI labelView post →Kate Winslet, An Actress Who Rose To World Fame With The Film Titanic And Won An Oscar In 2009 For The Film The Reader. (Top Movies: Titanic Hamlet) cyrus2004.rzb.ir/kate-winslet... #KateWinslet #Cinema #Actress
neutral · AI labelView post →The Reader (this was one of the medium format film shots I was excited about the other night)
neutral · AI labelView post →The Reader reveals a season of “festive film magic” in its brand-new Christmas pop-up Cinema under a cosy canopy. 🍿
neutral · AI labelView post →The Reader blends a controversial romance with post-war German guilt, presenting a layered, emotional story carried by powerful performances and thoughtful direction. Despite some logical gaps, the film succeeds in portraying personal and societal struggles through its characters' trauma and secrets. It’s a compelling watch for those drawn to slow-burning dramas with moral complexity. Read the full review here: (Indonesian version : alunauwie.com) and (English version : uwiepuspita.com)
positive · AI labelView post →The book and film The Reader reckons with a post-war Germany still filled with Nazis, mostly unpunished, and what it's like to be unavoidably involved in such a society. How should we relate to the Zionists in our lives?
neutral · AI labelView post →Looking for someone to watch on TV? The Agency gets an A+ so far. They’ve released 3 episodes on Paramount+/Sjowtime… it’s gripping and fun. Kate Winslet movies to watch: Lee A+ The Reader A+ Cillian Murphy movie to watch: Anthropoid A+
neutral · AI labelView post →I didn't turn this movie off after the beautiful sex scenes only because two others were watching it with me. The mere fact that "Germans" were speaking English totally destroyed the whole "suspend disbelief" for me. This film is an awful rendition by Brits of an award-winning German book. Perhaps, only someone from the Nachgeborenen (to coin Bertolt Brecht's meaning of German post-Holocaust generations) should have made this film. The two stars are for Winslet and Kross. The rest sucks.
negative · AI labelView post →David Kross is really effective in this tale of a young boy ("Michael") who encounters "Hanna" (Kate Winslet) as he shelters in her doorway from a rainstorm. In fairly short order, this fifteen year old boy becomes her lover; in return she gets him to read to her. He is soon infatuated and devastated when he turns up at her apartment one day to find her gone. Skip on thirty years or so and he - now Ralph Fiennes - takes over a retrospective of her story as we discover she was tried for being a…
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