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Child 44

2015

Daniel Espinosa

Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Gary Oldman, Joel Kinnaman ...

5.9

9,543

Drama. Thriller Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.

	Author	Review
United States	Kyle Smith New York Post	"Calling Child 44 a mash-up of 'Dr. Zhivago' and 'Silence of the Lambs' doesn’t do enough to capture how strange it is (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Part serial-killer thriller, part old-school anti-Soviet propaganda, Child 44 plays like a curious relic of an earlier Cold War mindset"	NEU
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"Child 44 could have been far more compelling had it dug deeper into its political thriller layers and not drifted into yet another story of a diabolical killer on the loose (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	James Rocchi The Wrap	"Child 44 turns a best-selling period-piece procedural into a slow, tedious thriller almost totally devoid of thrills"	NEG
United States	Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"['Child 44'] does benefit from strong performances and a few worthy scenes (...) Yet the movie doesn’t really captivate the way it should"	NEU
United States	Drew Taylor IndieWire	"A convoluted, muddy (both literally and figuratively) and overlong bore that takes an intriguing premise and does absolutely nothing with it"	NEG

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