'The Reader' Glazes Familiar Sexual-Awakening Story with Highbrow Affectation

New York Press | December 11, 2008
This film should have been a comedy like Paul Verhoeven's Black Book, shaking up the calcified presumptions of quasi-Holocaust dramas. But it's also Oscar season and historically based, award-baiting mawkishness is no laughing matter.

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