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  • The Interpreter (2018)
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    For the most part this is a lyrical and lightly handled odd couple road movie that achieves a subtle resonance, although it is almost scuppered by a sudden major tonal shift in the film's final act.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    An 80-year-old translator, Ali Ungár, comes across a book written by a former SS officer recounting his war experiences in Slovakia and realises that one of the chapters may well describe his own parents’ execution.
  • The Interpreter (2005)
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    Kidman has the sensitivity of a fawn and the tenacity of a dingo.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    A political thriller at the UN headquarters in New York.
  • The Interpreter (2006)
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    Treading gently between the twin stylistic giants of French and Russian cinema, Hazenov's film revels in its duality.

    Trinity · 4 out of 5
    Thriller sees a naive young Russian - raised in Geneva - caught up in the machinations of the Russian mob.

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