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2.0
Advertisement Its a beyond ambitious undertaking, and at times an unwieldy one.
Av Club
4.5
Then theres Halle Berrys reporter in 70s America, whos investigating Hugh Grants sinister nuclear reactor magnate.
Den Of Geek
4.5
Its entertaining and bold and never afraid to engage all of your senses and emotions.
We Got This Covered
5.0
But Cloud Atlas is truly original and wildly accomplished on every conceivable level, as innovative, unique, and extraordinary a cinematic experience ..
We Got This Covered
3.5
The single most ambitious film since Avatar is stunningly beautiful to look at, but an absolute pain to analyze and admire.
We Got This Covered
4.0
Three hours of my life that I can say with confidence were definitely not wasted.
Austin Chronicle
4.5
And thats about the highest praise I can give a movie these days.
Austin Chronicle
4.0
A film which piles on the action, the romance, the philosophical inquiry and the silly accents until the viewer is left punch drunk and reeling. Serio ..
Time Out
2.0
All mockery aside, what the Wachowskis and Tykwer are attempting is crystal cleara kind of epic, equal opportunity parable about the transgression cum ..
Time Out
3.5
The film is also a triumph for editor Alexander Berner who shapes an epic amount of material into a fluid piece of cinematic narrative that at least s ..
Screen Daily
3.4
Unfortunately, the ideas behind and the making of the production are more interesting than the film itself.
Paste Magazine
5.0
But, oh, what a film this is!.And what a demonstration of the magical, dreamlike qualities of the cinema.
Rogerebert
5.0
Karma seems to be one of the many ideas bubbling to the surface here.
E Film Critic
3.0
Tykwer and the Wachowskis have laboured long and hard to turn Mitchells very literary material into something cinematic.
Telegraph
3.0
So even more amazing is that it strays frequently in that direction but never quite bursts.
Telegraph
4.5
Why does this all feel grand and meaningful instead of like a cloying long distance commercial
Cinema Blend
2.0
But thats small reward for nearly three hours of scattershot success.
Ny Daily News
4.0
I totally disagree with the latter, as whatever it is, CLOUD ATLAS is certainly never boring.But, I cant quite proclaim it as masterpiece, as anything ..
JoBlo
4.5
In my own view, the movie delivers on more fronts than most other movies manage to deliver on any one front comedy, romance, drama, horror, spectacle ..
Screen Rant
3.1
Even at three hours, the film feels truncated, which raises the question of whether the entire adaptation exercise might have chosen the wrong form.
The Globe And Mail
2.5
Between the wars Scotland looks Masterpiece Theaterly, and the Aloha State landscapes of the dystopian yet to be have a certain Avatar ish hue.Cloud A ..
Philly
3.1
The Spy Who Dumped Me is an action comedy withwell, it has action.The Spy Who Dumped Me is an action comedy withwell, it has action.
Philly
4.5
Allow your deep feelings for others to move through your words and deeds.
Spirituality And Practice
2.5
The sixth tale takes place in post apocalyptic Hawaii in 2331 and 2346 .
Sover
3.5
An epic story of humankind in which the actions and consequences of our lives impact one another throughout the past, present and future as one soul i ..
Blu Ray
1.0
David Mitchells acclaimed 2004 novel consists of six stories, the first set in the 19th century and each subsequent one happening later in human histo ..
Chicago Reader
3.8
The film imagines itself to be a hopeful fable about the significance of any given individual for the furtherance of humanitys ideal.
Mark Reviews Movies
4.5
It is also a very daring film which takes on a very complex story with big themes and big ideas.
Lariat
4.2
Its fun but has little resonance, and much of the humor is bumblingly flat.
Eric Ds Nider
3.0
In the end, the film is more a magnificent curio than magnificent entertainment.
News Review
4.0
But as an overall experience, I wasnt ever emotionally touched enough to be blown away by this ambitious undertaking.
Screen It
3.1
Its elating to watch filmmakers you admire take on the impossible.
Rolling Stone
4.5
Its not enough to describe Dead Man as simply an anti western; its an iconoclastic deconstruction of late 19th Century American values and mores, many ..
Pop Matters
4.5
Its not enough to describe Dead Man as simply an anti western; its an iconoclastic deconstruction of late 19th Century American values and mores, many ..
Pop Matters
3.0
Even its shortcomings wind up being more interesting than many recent successes.
The Wrap
4.0
Similarly, though the connections between the stories arent quite as strong as they could have been, there are still powerfully emotional themes runni ..
View London
3.1
The hope is that youll gape at the grand tapestry and overlook the seams.
News Day
2.5
The result is maddening, exasperating, occasionally exhilarating and mostly boring.
Cs Monitor
4.0
But on the whole, Cloud Atlas is consistently entertaining and surprisingly effective, as well as the shortest three hours most moviegoers will ever s ..
Film Journal
3.1
You get your moneys worth in spectacle but more change back than you might expect in vapid sermonizing.
Boston
5.0
You will not see anything like it this year nothing so grand and ambitious and you may never see anything like it again.
Mountain X
3.0
But the true true is that flashy visuals and fortune cookie philosophizing do not a resonant movie make.
Npr
1.9
If you love jumble sales you may enjoy finding scraps of pleasure in a 172 minute endurance test.
Star Tribune
3.2
Prepare yourself for a longalmost three hourstrip, in more senses than one; the whole movie is a bit trippy.
Emanuellevy
3.5
I occasionally winced but was mostly emotionally and intellectually involved, carried along by the oceanic flow.
Guardian
2.0
And yet, if the mark of a truly great folly is its flaws and ambiguities, then Cloud Atlas falls short.The film runs wide, but it is as deep as a pudd ..
Guardian
2.0
The three directors have carefully re arranged the chronology, splicing between the stories based on theme.Its a daring shuffle, but it works.
Guardian
3.8
Yet, as much as I loved parts of it, I couldnt quite feel like I loved the whole of it.
Q Network
0.0
For an adaptation to have worked cinematically, it would have required a director skilful enough to parody six very different cinematic genres.
Daily Mail
3.8
The stories bounce off one another in devious and intricate ways.
Ew
2.0
I really wanted to view this adaptation as something of a masterpiece, but in the end, its a convoluted and meandering mess with too much happening, a ..
Cinema Crazed
3.5
Its funny, violent and prodigiously romantic; it has immense heart and more gorgeous cinematic moments than I can describe.
Salon
4.0
Its moving, surprising, gently but insistently political, and almost entirely persuasive despite its narrative pyrotechnics.
Flim List
4.0
In an age of relentless safety, its cocktail of human foible and movie madness is intoxicating.
Empire
1.5
This is a film that will be enjoyed most by people who havent seen many other films.
Eye For Film
4.0
Gorgeous and glorious, this unconventional, epic fantasy is a visceral and visual feast.
Susang Ranger
1.3
Almost three hours long, a lugubrious sludge of mud soup called Cloud Atlas deserves a limp nod for pure guts, I suppose, but what Id really like to d ..
Observer
2.0
Throughout Hollywood history, size and scale have often triumphed over content, and, for many, the magnifying and inflating of these empty stories may ..
Common Sense Media
3.8
And while its easy to admire the films massive scope and the adroit method in which the film is presented its hard not to notice that, for all its big ..
Movies
3.8
The filmmakers are gambling, in fact, on the intelligence and patience of the sci fi action audience.Lets wish them luck.
Sf Gate
3.5
he best thing about Cloud Atlas is that it could, and should, turn into a properly divisive film... but one has to ask: does it allow for immersion Ev ..
New Yorker
3.1
Cloud Atlas is a rare film thats greater than the sum of its often innocuous parts.
Slant Magazine
1.5
Nothing works because, almost by the very nature of its design, nothing can: It collapses so intensely under the weight of its own inanity and pretens ..
Slant Magazine
4.0
That is a lot for one film to try to encompass and it doesnt all work but you are unlikely to see a more ambitious film this year.
Express
3.1
The Neo Seoul fable of revolution is strong and evocative enough to stand alone.The actors go at it with gusto.
Chicago Tribune
2.5
The film is also a bit of a paradox in that it feels too long yet somehow incomplete, and it fails to live up to the epic scope of its narrative struc ..
Bullz-Eye
2.8
And yet, the film has its moments, its interesting performances, which make the film a thoroughly flawed curiosity.
Reeling Reviews
4.5
Its bonkers how far across time and across the planet this insanely grand matrix of interconnected tales ranges... I love this movie. Its every movie. ..
Flickfilosopher
3.0
The screenplay, too, for all its flaws, is a remarkable achievement.
The Irish Times
2.9
Thus, the panorama of Cloud Atlas isas I saidboth exhilarating and disappointing.But I am unwilling to disparage the film as a whole because there is ..
Blogs Indie Wire
2.5
The movie, too, is ultimately a little unconvincing, although its scope and ambition do a good job of masking that banality.
Las Vegas Weekly
3.8
But there are some amazing sequences and the films visual style is powerful.
ReelViews
3.5
No individual voice has time to take holdand, indeed, if any did, it would likely cause whiplash at the movies next narrative lurch.
The Atlantic
4.0
This is a unified film with distinct parts, echoing the themes of human interconnectivity.
Hollywood
3.0
It deserves to find its own audience, though for its an achievement, making a movie quite so crackers on such a big scale in the industry as it is tod ..
Standard
3.5
In the end a three hour movie like this is just a massive ego trip by all involved.
Tony Medley
2.2
None of the story threads is strong enough on its own to effect much of an emotional connection with the audience.
Coles Mithey
2.0
Not that the filmmakers havent labored mightily to solve this problem, or tried awfully hard to make a film that is different and meaningful.
Los Angeles Times
5.0
Indeed, the filmmakers put the lie to the notion that casting an inherently discriminatory art cannot be adapted to a more enlightened standard of per ..
Variety
1.3
Some will find all this deeply moving, hugely impressive, dazzling and/or mind shattering.
Groucho Reviews
4.8
... a unique and beautiful work of film art that dares to dream big in a way we rarely see from either studios or independent sources.
Hit Fix
5.0
Part of the appeal of Cloud Atlas is that its occasionally confounding nature is part of the pleasure.
Aisle Seat
1.3
Two Dramas from Warner Bros. Cloud Atlas (December 2/12) Though one cant help admire the ambition thats clearly on display here, Cloud Atlas, for the ..
Reel Film
3.1
And yet theres a lot in this film thats wonderful.Sure, theres a slice or two of ham sandwiched in between his many portrayals, but Hanks is fun and e ..
Nj
3.1
But the pounds of makeup and shallow philosophy on screen bring it down.
Movie Habit
3.5
I guess Im saying that theres plenty to enjoy in this over stuffed cornucopia of a movie, but if youre looking for transcendent cinema, you may be dis ..
Movie Habit
3.8
Cloud Atlas is consistently challenging, frequently entertaining and occasionally maddening.
The Star
2.5
Theres evidence here that the Wachowskis are gifted, but they havent made anything truly great since Bound.
Film Freak Central
4.2
Art, and especially story, outlive their human creators and the effects ripple across time.Its a uniquely cinematic and very effective choice to have ..
Oregon Live
4.0
An avalanche of ideas cascade relentlessly in this full throttle and stimulating film that is often frustrating and overlong, as it puts forward its p ..
Urban Cine File
2.5
The result is a lot of sound and fury signifying a sentiment that could be printed on a fortune cookie.
Movies Tv Guide
4.0
A think piece linking past, present and future thats surprisingly haunting and moving in its delivery.
The Age
2.0
A bafflingly bonkers grand folly, its weirdness on a grand but mostly unfathomable scale.
Mirror
4.0
Its a challenging piece of work demanding concentration as the characters and time periods spin out.
Varia Gate
3.0
It could never be a perfect whole.That said, Cloud Atlas is never boring.
Digital Spy
1.5
The filmmakers dare audiences to piece it together, offering few if any reasons to make the effort.
Tamp A Bay
1.3
Repeated motifs like falling off bridges add nothing, and the movies idea of a big reveal is telegraphed so far in advance that you cant believe the f ..
New York Post
1.3
While the movie does more than most others, it doesnt do anything better.
Red Eye Chicago
5.0
The finished picture is a sensory overload in the best way, bursting with such imagination and thematic complexity that one viewing is simply not enou ..
Dustin Put Man
4.0
In fact, the way it combines humour, emotion and drama is frequently exhilarating.
Contact Music
5.0
It was and remains a misunderstood masterpiece that, in time, will be turned into the cinematic classic its ambitions aimed for.
Film Racket
3.8
Even its detractors and this is a movie thats easy to take potshots at will have to admit that Cloud Atlas is more fluid than it has any right to be.
Larsen On Film
1.3
Whether or not it could ever be made into a good movie remains to be seen.
Christianity Today
4.0
This film blends strong storytelling with mind tickling plots and characters who achieve a meteor shower of transcendent moments.
Hollywood And Fine
3.8
If you want a simple three word answer, you only need to look at the tagline on the poster everything is connected.
The Film Pie
4.0
Its just one more layer of meta in a film thats jammed full of meta: the films deeply flawed greatness is an extension of its themes of the whole bein ..
Io9 Gizmodo
3.8
And although some will find the nearly three hour film bloated and pretentious, those who enjoy puzzles and bold thinking may feel differently.
Js Online
3.5
Cloud Atlas Synopsis An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped f ..
Movie Web
3.0
Too much of what unspools in this epic experience is technically remarkable and thematically engaging to dismiss the film entirely but its an undeniab ..
Hollywood Chicago
1.0
In the end, viewers will take precisely what they want from the film.
Cinemix Tape
4.0
Those requiring drama or romance will find that in abundance while those just wanting tension and straight up action should be content by the number o ..
ComingSoon
2.0
The makeup in this movie is absolutely incredible, but once you catch on, it becomes more of a game of spot the actor than appreciating the work withi ..
Shockya
2.0
In this era of low risk comic book blockbusters, you have to marvel at the financiers willing to roll the diceto the tune of more than $100 millionon ..
News Week
2.0
Though Cloud Atlas is almost assuredly destined to be the directors film maudit (brass tacks: its mainstream enough to succeed at the multiplex and to ..
Film Comment
4.0
A film of this scale and scope feels like it should reveal the very key to life as we know it but, ultimately, it feels like theres no real point to i ..
The Shiz Nit
4.3
Why not have fun with this sprawling a story.Otherwise you have a cast with 30 leading actors.
Crave Online
3.5
This is a refreshingly adult outing, making the best of its raw moments to heighten the emotional intensity of its challenging composition.
What Culture
3.1
Cloud Atlas is a film where the creators admirable reach exceeds their grasp. You may be getting six films for the cost of one, but it may not really ..
Mercury News
3.0
And yet, for the most part, the film succeeds as a big, goofy, overblown, but endearingly sincere attempt to do something different.It may be a folly, ..
Scots Man
4.0
Cloud Atlas is the film equivalent of sixth form poetry earnest, and sometimes inventive, but more often pretentious and sanctimonious.
Scots Man
4.4
Its actually quite beautiful.But since the movie has some of the best and worst cinematic makeup transformations ever, its easy to poke fun at.
Scene Stealers
3.0
It was a novel as much about writing as it was interconnectivity, but the polish from prose and the mystique it created has no equal in this movie ada ..
The Ooh Tray
3.0
For a movie so jammed full of stuffnearly three hours worth of itCloud Atlas feels oddly empty.
reason
5.0
...a movie that will reward repeated viewings, connections and layers of meaning waiting to be discovered.
Scifi Movie Page
4.0
Heaven and Hell are merely whats waiting for us in the next life, and totally dependent on our karmic debt.You may not buy into this interpretation of ..
Streaming Quickflix
3.0
This would be epic is beautifully photographed, elegantly crafted and adventurously cast.
Wsj
4.0
It moves at a brisk pace, especially for a three hour movie, and it remains visually interesting throughout.
Fat Guys At The Movies
3.5
Still, the credits bring delightful surprises and the freshest response I could muster in nearly three hours.
New Republic
1.5
The seventies action plotcar crashes, shoot outsis standard stuff but hits its marks.
Ny Mag
4.4
It relies on strong emotional threads to bring the audience to tears at key moments without feeling forced.
Cinema Sight
3.5
That makes this the most conventional film any of them has made.When it dashes through the plot points, the movie is fine.
Entertainment Time
1.0
I couldnt finish it.).Turning it into a single film is as bonkers as adapting the Bible.
Daily Star
2.8
Sadly, Team Wachowski supplements and relies on special effects wizardry and movie magic to solve many of the scripts narrative shortcomings.
Daily Film Fix
3.5
Yet it is all one story.Cloud Atlas is a majestic tapestry depicting the interwoven skeins of human lifetimes; all the actors reappear in all the scen ..
Theepoch Times
3.8
Those smaller stories are the ones you wish could have spent more time with.
Reel Talk Online
4.5
Unless you have little ones at home, it has probably been a long time since youve connected the dots to form a full picture.Cloud Atlas allows you the ..
The Scorecard Review
4.0
The momentum never lets up and sometimes that alone is all that keeps you moving through the weave of stories, but it can be enough.
Stream On Demand At Home
5.0
Its almost impossible to attempt to succinctly contain the narrative weaved through time and space.
Graffiti With Punctuation
2.0
Yet there are moments when the movie connects in astonishing ways and transcends standard filmmaking with vision and verve and sheer force of will, if ..
Toledo Blade
4.0
The acting throughout is iffy at best.The extravagant costumes and makeup tattoos, false noses and age and ethnic cleansing seemingly bring out their ..
Honey Cutts Hollywood
1.8
If you like fancy editing and a complicated story, revisit Inception..The film is brilliant and intelligent.
Movie Chambers
4.5
If there is a fault to be found with this film, its that it wants to be about everything. But if it was any less than that, it wouldnt be this film.
Need Coffee
3.0
Youll love it, youll hate it, youll be dazzled and enraged and while the story is no more profound than any other blockbuster, glittering visions will ..
Sky
2.0
It is a luxury of cinema, often producing an epic scale or a multilayered story, reflecting numerous threads and character.
Impulse Gamer
4.0
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Richard Roeper
3.6
Thatll be fun exercise for the kiddies, right.K: It will take less time than this movie, anyway.
Schmoes Know
4.0
Cloud Atlas is truly a magnificent accomplishment, an epic film that defies genre, defies reduction, and (perhaps most importantly) defies what US stu ..
Hey U Guys
2.5
For all its elliptical storytelling and time tripping construct, Cloud Atlas is an empty affair.
The Diva Review
4.0
Its just that sometimes the ideas get too big for the film and the story loses its way.
Flixist
4.0
Its rare, these days, to see a movie declare its aims for greatness so openly and without a leaden sense of self importance.
Movie Line
4.5
The whole movie is epic.This is a film that is epic in the old fashioned sense, an epic that spans not just time and the map but the very geography of ..
Bad Ass Digest
3.0
Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock couldnt win a single best director Oscar between them.But that doesnt make them bad filmmakers any ..
Birmingham Mail
3.8
And if, in the end, it is not a great film, it is definitely a film that has moments of greatness.
Twin Cities
4.5
Characters rise and fall throughout time as a result of their actions and its intriguing to watch the intricate pieces of the puzzle come together.
The Popcorn Junkie
3.0
Despite its shortcomings, its worth seeing and worth trying to get your head around days after you have.Revolutionary or gimmicky
Bangkok Post
3.5
Hell, it yearns for it.And when it hits those notes, especially during the middle section when new discoveries and connections are being made and ever ..
Blogs Houston Press
5.0
All published materials contained herein are owned by their respective authors and cannot be reprinted, either in their entirety or in selection, with ..
Cinema Phile 2010 Blog Spo ..
4.0
Its a film that is equally popcorn entertainment as it is an experience to dissect and discover again and again.
Fox News
3.0
Its a rewarding film experience, if not an entirely satisfactory one.Its not for the faint of heart.
Cines Nark
3.0
Pow!.With any luck, theyll start a trend: I, for one, would be happy to watch next summers entire crop of forgettable flicks in three hour mash up for ..
7 Dvt
3.0
In its multiplicity of narrative threads, genre send ups, and plot overlaps, it practically guarantees disorientation.
Mubi
4.5
After Samara so captivatingly revealed what the cinema can do without dialogue and narrative driven filmmaking, Cloud Atlas quite marvellously weaves ..
James Wegg Review
4.0
For all its shortcomings, you have to admire the imagination, philosophy, and courage behind Cloud Atlas, boldly going where few films dare to tread.
The Reel Deal
2.0
But despite some fleeting moments, the line thats supposed to connect them is far too thin to hold the 172 minute movie together, and the individual s ..
Access Hollywood
2.5
It would be an excellent advertisement for you to read the book, if you hadnt just ruined it by watching the movie.
Deads
1.0
Nolan should have noted that Alfred Hitchcock, a master at suspense, couldnt sneak in even one explain away moment at the end of Psycho.
Film International
4.0
Its a thought provoking experience filled with tremendous performances from its spot on cast.
Windy City Media Group
4.0
Despite the fact that ot sometimes looks like $102 million celebrity dress up party where Tom Hanks got a really good bulk deal on latex noses Cloud A ..
Sound Cloud
3.8
A cleverly concealed, centuries spanning headscratcher constructed with fans of the original sextet of stories in mind.
Aalbc It
2.3
For all its grandeur, the filmmakers stumble getting to the level to make the film a true epic.The characters are unremarkable and I wanted some signi ..
Jeffreyklyles Word Press
2.8
Its a very entertaining movie that looks great and is occasionally touching, almost in spite of itself.
Filmdrunk Uproxx
2.0
All mockery aside, what the Wachowskis and Tykwer are attempting is crystal cleara kind of epic, equal opportunity parable about the transgression cum ..
Time Out Chicago
4.0
There are big ideas here, ideas too big to be told with only one tale.
Giant Freakin Robot
3.8
At nearly three hours long, Cloud Atlas seldom slows its pace and remains entertaining the whole way through.That in itself is a remarkable feat.
Planit North West
3.0
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2.5
As a result, the film feels every bit as dauntingly long as its running time suggests, and getting through it can be a test of both endurance and pati ..
Washingtonian
4.0
But the Wachowskis storytelling has never been as dexterous as it is here, and they more successfully than ever merge big ideas with even bigger visua ..
Cele Buzz
3.0
One mans ambitious, iconoclastic, like nothing ever before seen passion project is another mans Battlefield Earth, and so it goes that for some of us ..
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