The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
The Reader has generally received positive reviews.
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The Reader was released in 2008 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 847 reviews, giving The Reader (2008) an average rating of 72%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 78%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 67%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with The Reader than critics were.
With a score of 72%, The Reader is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2008, which stands at 56%.
Other movies from 2008 with similar scores include films like Taken, Hellboy II: The Golden Army and Welcome to the Sticks.
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