Child 44
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Directed by: Daniel Espinosa
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.
Reviews (3)
Reno (Rated: 5)
A war hero who turned a police officer struggles with his departmental feud.
It is a strange title. In the narration as well it does not properly reveals, more like an approximate count of something. It is a Russian story, I mean the Russian characters and the locations. It begins after the w...
Filipe Manuel Neto (Rated: 7)
An overly ambitious film, but still an interesting one.
Honestly, I expected a little more from this movie. I found it on television, just by chance, but I had already heard about it, I'm not sure for what purpose, but I had the impression that it was a very good film. It's not as good as I e...
GenerationofSwine (Rated: 5)
Despite Oldman's involvement, it lacks all the dark charm of HBO's Citizen X. There is less of a dual examination of both the system of the USSR and Chikatilo, and the film suffers from that.
It's a little less compelling, the situation that unravels seems more incompetent than meddled. And the c...
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