How often these days do you see a movie that sends you out into the night engaged in heated conversation and debate?  That’s the rare pleasure and achievement of The Reader, one of the most haunting and thought-provoking films of recent years.  Bernhard Schlink’s novel scored an enormous success around the world, but it also stirred controversy by presenting a former concentration camp guard in a complex, at times sympathetic light.  The same controversy will …

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