- CELEBRITY
- 07:00 PM, Mar 19
unrelentingly grim, plodding, and close-to-incoherent adaptation of Tom Rob Smith's best-selling mysteryby Steven Rea [Philadelphia Inquirer ]
the usual serial-killer thriller in Soviet dragby Rafer Guzman [Newsday ]
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 basicsby Kyle Smith [New York Post ]
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 looseby Claudia Puig [USA Today ]
a muddled, mumbling thriller that never gets us in an iron gripby Joe Neumaier [NY Daily News ]