Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 207
Fresh: 172 | Rotten: 35
Atonement features strong performances, brilliant cinematography, and a unique score. Featuring deft performances from James MacAvoy and Keira Knightley, it's a successful adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel.
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 43
Fresh: 38 | Rotten: 5
Atonement features strong performances, brilliant cinematography, and a unique score. Featuring deft performances from James MacAvoy and Keira Knightley, it's a successful adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel.
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A mischievous girl accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit, only to find that her words have irrevocably and permanently changed the lives of all involved in a film that re-teams the filmmakers behind Pride & Prejudice to adapt the best-selling 2002 novel by author Ian McEwan. The year is 1935, and as the summer heat takes hold, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis watches her older sister, Cecilia (Keira Knightley), get undressed and go frolicking in the garden
Sep 7, 2007 Wide
Mar 18, 2008
$50.8M
Focus Features
All Critics (207) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (176) | Rotten (36) | DVD (18)
Joe Wright directs Atonement with an eye to framing each performance with spectacularly vivid images, including a genuinely breathtaking tracking shot on the bloody, wreckage-strewn beach at Dunkirk.
Atonement is a film out of balance, nimble enough in its first half but oddly scattered and ungainly once it leaves the grounds of the Tallis estate.
One of the few adaptations that gives a novel the film it deserves.
The kind of classically contoured love story that American filmmakers have become (almost willfully) incapable of making anymore.
A film that instantly joins the ranks of the great screen romances.
This is a film that might have contained itself better, but it still stings with bitter truth.
Atonement's goal is so ephemeral that film may not be able to do it complete justice. All that said, it's still a fantastic piece of craftsmanship, benefiting from loving direction and excellent performances.
An epic, grandiose, and immensely sad film, Atonement is an extremely well crafted, visually rich love story set during a tumultuous time of war, where two impassioned characters are forever torn apart by the selfish jealousy of another.
Figurines in a teacup set, shipped over in boxes labeled 'For your consideration'
Frustratingly uneven, struggling to maintain momentum as it lurches through extended lulls and indulges in cliched genre affectations.
zaslu%u017Euje pohvale, ali ne onakve kakve bi trebao imati ozbiljni kandidat za "Oscara"
Players outshine the script
Director Joe Wright and screenwriter Christopher Hampton tap into the underlying passion and pathos from which all the absurdity, irony, and poetry follow.
Ranks among the best films of the year.
It's a romantic epic, set in the past, featuring some beautiful imagery, high drama and terrific performances from its small, all British cast. It's also (which isn't always a given when it comes to Best Picture contenders) a great movie.
Atonement may look and sound like a Best Picture candidate, but that's all Wright's doing.
As beautiful as it is thought-provoking and soulful.
not a Jane Austin story, but it could be, if Jane Austin hardened up her subject matter a bit
Few films this year were as magnificent looking and few as misunderstood.
[U]ltimately, the movie amounts to rolling lawns, lovely costumes, and characters that simply fail to resonate.
Director Joe Wright is quickly establishing himself as a powerhouse adapter of period romance tomes.
At some points Wright appears to be simply showing off the dexterity of his visual ambitions to the detriment of the story's emotional core.
browsing the flixster reviews on my list, and i find most people who enjoy this movie just generally tag it as a WAR-EPIC-ROMANCE, a sort of hemingway-esque farewell to arms scenario with a much more lurid modern sexual episode in the library. so what is the ingredient that distinguishes atonement? ADOLESCENT
January 6, 2008Super Reviewer
Perfect! I absolutely loved it...
August 13, 2010Super Reviewer
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