The Reader (3/5)
Posted on 12 Feb 2009
A well cut, non-linear narrative and enough rarely-clothed Winslett to keep me around for the last reel, where your standard-issue Holocaust/Hollywood guilt is given a new take. Winslett was in Extras a few years back playing herself, acting in a miserably pretentious Holocaust film for the sole purpose of nabbing an Oscar. How peculiar that exactly such came to pass with her win in this overrated film. Forever in my book as the one that bumped The Dark Knight from Best Picture running (I’m not supposed to care about that crap anymore).
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