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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. Finding themselves exiled to a grim ...
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A Kafka-esque condemnation of Stalin’s government...
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It wasn't bad, certainly not 26% bad anyway, but definitely a let-down given the potential it had. From the trailer I was expecting a serial killer movie with a period backdrop, but the film splinters off with so many bloated subplots that the end result is just kinda messy.
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
Apr 17, 2015 · Child 44. This weekend’s Communist period piece “Child 44” has suffered an incriminating fate that even “Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2” avoided: Russia banned it right before its release, stating that the film reflected upon the nation with evocations of Mordor (the evil land from J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings”), and in an ...
Apr 17, 2015 · Tom Hardy stars as a disgraced military policeman in the Stalin-era Soviet Union investigating a series of bizarre and brutal child murders. Based on the novel of the same name by Englishman...
Apr 15, 2015 · Part serial-killer thriller, part old-school anti-Soviet propaganda, “Child 44” plays like a curious relic of an earlier Cold War mindset.
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Apr 16, 2015 · The most fascinating thing about “Child 44” is probably its setting and the idea of investigating a murder when murder isn’t acknowledged (it’s a toxic byproduct of a Capitalist society).