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3 Outstanding Female Performances - Atonement review by CP Customer

A young teenage girl misunderstands things and only years later she finally understands what her doing has caused. Briony is played by 3 actresses and what performances - worth watching just for this reason.

Atonement - Atonement review by CP Customer

Both my husband & I thoroughly enjoyed this film from start to finish. Acting was totally believable. After the film had finished it left us thinking what a twisty turny life we live, which can change in a moment by either a left or right turn. Brilliant, rent it!

amazing atonement - Atonement review by CP Customer

great film on all aspects, will be buying the book & the blu ray as it was that good i would like to watch it again unlike other films which once you've seen it you don't care wether or not you see it again.

Sensational film! - Atonement review by JT

A very watchable film that pulls at your heart strings. Makes you feel very lucky to have not been alive at that time regardless of wealth. A love story that's real in its time

Fact and Fiction - Atonement review by CP Customer

This moving film cleverly weaves fact with fiction. There are fine performances from the leading actors and some atmospheric scenes. Although the pace of the film appears slow to begin with, it carries a sense of impending doom, builds the tension effectively, and remains entirely credible. It works beautifully.

Beautifully written and photographed, but misses the point of the novel completely! - Atonement review by DB

This film of Ian McEwan's "Atonement" looks sublime, drawing on a Merchant-Ivory atmosphere of English summer perfection and social formality. The oppressive heat of the opening act only augments the mood. It's a striking feat to fit so much of the novel's essence into a two-hour film, and it's therefore all the more dismaying that the film robs the story of its deliciously ambiguous ending, and therefore of its essential thesis.

Starched Linen, Shaky Conscience - Atonement review by griggs

Some dramas arrive in crisp shirts and good manners, then quietly take your legs out from under you. Atonement is one of those: all starched linen, library books and clipped conversations, staged with such confidence it’s hard not to wish Joe Wright’s later films had matched this level. The Dunkirk long take and the typewriter clatter in the score are very showy, but here the flourishes serve the story rather than smother it.

Having worked on the Balham disaster memorial, I’d always been wary of this, braced for that particular horror to be turned into set dressing. To its credit, the film handles the Tube sequence with care and folds it into the love story, which feels adult even as war and class grind it down.

What really lingers is Briony: first as a child who misreads a moment and blows several lives apart, then as a woman trying to rewrite the damage. The final turn lands like a quiet punch. By the end, the title feels earned, even if forgiveness doesn’t.