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- While the acting's good and the period setting is impressively executed, Child 44 lacks a compelling mystery. At almost two-and-a-half hours long, the story is packed with unnecessary subplots and scenes that do nothing to progress the plot. Even when the story is interesting, it's often marred by dim presentation and faulty Russian accents.
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Apr 17, 2015 · The USSR’s main orphan in “Child 44” is Leo Demidov (Tom Hardy). His parents died in the Holodomor famine in the Ukraine in the 1930s, but he found a new family within Russian military, and was deemed a war hero when seen on newspapers brandishing a Soviet flag after the Reichstag in 1945.
Apr 16, 2015 · The film team review A Little Chaos Guardian. Ten years later, under a crushing Stalinist tyranny, he is a security officer exiled to the middle of nowhere for refusing to denounce his wife in a...
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- Peter Bradshaw
Apr 17, 2015 · In 1950s Soviet Russia, secret police agent Leo Demidov (Tom Hardy) loses everything when he refuses to denounce his wife, Raisa (Noomi Rapace) as a traitor.
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- Daniel Espinosa
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- Tom Hardy
Apr 16, 2015 · In “Child 44,” set in the 1950s, a Soviet secret-police agent exiled to a remote town with his wife tries to track a serial killer of boys.
- Daniel Espinosa
- A.O. Scott
- 137 min
A Kafka-esque condemnation of Stalin’s government ham-handedly plopped into a John le Carré spy thriller, Child 44 is ambiguous cinematic fluff. Full Review | Aug 3, 2023. Keith Garlington ...
Apr 20, 2015 · Set in 1953 in Stalin’s USSR, it starts from a brilliant premise – a detective investigates a series of child killings in a society where even acknowledging the possibility of murder is...
Apr 15, 2015 · ‘Child 44’: Film Review. Tom Hardy plays a Russian officer tracking a killer in Daniel Espinosa’s Soviet thriller. By Jordan Mintzer. April 15, 2015 9:00am. It’s difficult to tell what may be the...
