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.
[An] unrelentingly grim, plodding, and close-to-incoherent adaptation of Tom Rob Smith's best-selling mystery.
– Steven Rea,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
16 Apr 2015
fresh:
"Child 44" is involving despite itself.
– Kenneth Turan,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Apr 2015
fresh:
Given these actors and the ravishing decrepitude of the locations and costumes and the lustrous cinematography of Oliver Wood, I found it more than watchable the whole way through.
– Andrew O'Hehir,
Salon.com,
18 Apr 2015
rotten:
The movie hints at a riveting story but is incapable of delivering it.