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Child 44
Directed by
Daniel Espinosa
2015
2h 17m
R
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A disgraced member of the Russian military police investigates a series of child murders during the Stalin-era Soviet Union.
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Cast of Child 44
Tom Hardy
Leo Demidov
Gary Oldman
General Mikhail Nesterov
Noomi Rapace
Raisa Demidov
Fares Fares
Alexei Andreyev
Joel Kinnaman
Vasili
Paddy Considine
Vladimir Malevich
Jason Clarke
Anatoly Brodsky
Mark Lewis Jones
Tortoise
Vincent Cassel
Major Kuzmin
Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Ivan Sukov
Charles Dance
Major Grachev
Xavier Atkins
Young Leo Demidov
Karel Dobrý
Photographer
Agnieszka Grochowska
Nina Andreyeva
Petr Vaněk
Fyodor
Jana Stryková
Mara
Ursina Lardi
Zina Gubinova
Michael Nardone
Semyon Okun
Finbar Lynch
Doctor Boris Zarubin
Tara Fitzgerald
Inessa Nesterov
Josef Altin
Alexander
Sam Spruell
Doctor Tyapkin
Lorraine Ashbourne
Anna
Ned Dennehy
Coroner
Jemma O'Brien
Elena Okun
Lottie Steer
Tamara Okun
Barbara Lukešová
Semyon Okun's Wife
Zdeněk Bařinka
Jora Aleksevic Andreyev
Petra Lustigová
Zoya
Predrag Bjelac
Basurov
Samuel Buttery
Varlam
Ondřej Malý
The Collector, Yury Abelman
Ivan G'Vera
Budenny
Václav Jiráček
Stephan
Anssi Lindström
Alexander Pickup
Ondřej Volejník
Cyril
Sonny Ashbourne Serkis
Artur
Heather Craney
Galina Shaporina
Marie Jansová
Alicia
Ivan Shvedoff
Artur's Father
Romana Goščíková
Artur's Mother
Igor Farbak
Dimitri
Martin Hub
Galina Shaporina's Husband
Kristýna Leichtová
Domestic Arts Teacher
Hana Frejková
Alexei's Mother
Pavel Šimčík
Tibor
Markéta Tanner
Volsk School Director, Larissa Anasova
Child 44 Reviews
Entertainment Weekly
Chris Nashawaty
It's as tedious as a bottomless bowl of borscht.
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
The usual serial-killer thriller in Soviet drag.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
[An] unrelentingly grim, plodding, and close-to-incoherent adaptation of Tom Rob Smith's best-selling mystery.
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
The movie hints at a riveting story but is incapable of delivering it.
RogerEbert.com
Nick Allen
Equally bloated and scatterbrained.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
A muddled, mumbling thriller that never gets us in an iron grip.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Child 44 could have been far more compelling had it dug deeper into its political thriller layers and not drifted into yet another story of a diabolical killer on the loose.
Associated Press
Jocelyn Noveck
Ultimately, what we have is a bloated, grim, underwhelming affair, which is unfortunate - because the movie starts out with a lot going for it.
Christianity Today
Alissa Wilkinson
In the end, the film lacks an imagination, and that unfortunately winds up dragging it through the mud.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
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.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
"Child 44" is involving despite itself.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
What "Child 44" most resembles is a rushed and crowded pilot for a television drama.
Village Voice
Stephanie Zacharek
For long stretches, it's dull and plodding, chugging along on the fumes of its earnest intentions. Still, there are worse ways to kill two hours than watching Hardy work his sturdy magic.
Film Journal International
Nick Schager
Overstuffed with plot, Child 44 becomes no more lucid as it progresses from one development to another.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
The film is at once devoted to corroborating and casting an exaggerated light on Soviet paranoia and the state's rhetoric of unmasking its enemies.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Despite gritty atmosphere and a sometimes smart script by the estimable Richard Price, whose credits include "The Wire," "Child 44" can't sort out the basics.
Variety
Peter Debruge
"Child 44" plays like a curious relic of an earlier Cold War mindset, when Western audiences took comfort that they were living on the right side of the Iron Curtain, and relied on movies to remind them as much.
ScreenCrush
Matt Singer
It shouldn't be possible to make a movie this bad with a cast this good.
TheWrap
James Rocchi
A Soviet-era slog through crime and corruption, painted in grim shades of muck, blood, moss and bark, director Daniel Espinosa's "Child 44" turns a best-selling period-piece procedural into a slow, tedious thriller almost totally devoid of thrills.
Hollywood Reporter
Jordan Mintzer
The movie doesn't really captivate the way it should, and as the manhunt stretches on it actually diminishes in suspense, ultimately overstaying its two-plus-hour running time.
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