Entertainment
Stephen Daldry's adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's much-lauded novel "The Reader" is like one of those handsome, slipcased editions of a classic that looks great on your bookshelf, even though you never feel the remotest desire to take it down. Daldry -- whose last picture was the desiccated 2002 "The Hours," also based on an acclaimed book (Michael Cunningham's novel of the same name) -- has once… » Full Story on Salon.com

