The most obvious Oscar-bait release of the season, “Atonement” has everything the Academy looks for in a winner. A meditation on the art of storytelling, it is also more accessibly a ...

Disdain. Desire. More disdain. Even more heat. So swings Cecilia Tallis’ emotional pendulum before settling on Robbie Turner in “Atonement,” which opens Dec. 14. She’s to the manor born and, as the ...

Although ATONEMENT may look and sound like a love story, with its sweaty trysts in darkened libraries and the wistful look in the hero's eyes as he watches his beloved ride away on a bus, the romance ...

When we destroy another person’s life by our lies it is difficult to atone for our sins. This is due in part because we are incapable of giving back the days and years stolen from them because of our ...

Atonement is director Joe Wright’s follow up to 2005’s Pride and Prejudice. It reunites him with actress Keira Knightley, who was nominated for an Oscar for her work in that film. Like its predecessor ...

It’s December, moviegoers, so get ready for an onslaught of Oscar bait movies, puffed up with a sense of self-importance like a package of Jiffy Pop at maximum capacity. Of the many films at which ...

I understand — intellectually, anyway — that I was supposed to fall rapturously in love with Ian McEwan’s 2002 novel Atonement. After all, I’d read and been impressed by several of McEwan’s other ...

“Atonement” is a devastatingly beautiful tragedy and it is worthy of its Golden Globe status as Best Drama. This film does nearly everything perfectly. All its elements, from cinematography and ...

Atonement: Drama. Starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. Directed by Joe Wright. (R. 130 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) At first, "Atonement" seems as though it's going to be one of those English ...

“Atonement,” like Lillian Hellman’s “The Children’s Hour,” starts out as a depiction of what Hellman called “the power of a lie.” Then it ripples out into a panorama that encompasses so much more. The ...