Rotten
The movie hints at a riveting story but is incapable of delivering it.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Child 44
How do you find a killer who doesn’t exist?
2015 · 2h 17m · R
Crime, Thriller
Directed by
Daniel Espinosa
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Child 44
Overview
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.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
30%
Tomatometer
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
Fresh
"Child 44" is involving despite itself.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
[An] unrelentingly grim, plodding, and close-to-incoherent adaptation of Tom Rob Smith's best-selling mystery.
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Rotten
It's as tedious as a bottomless bowl of borscht.
Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly
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