Reviews for this film from our members:
- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Non bastano le buone intenzioni, l’anarchia che si respira a pieni polmoni, il monito ambientalista, per fare di Cloud Atlas qualcosa di più di un esperimento per cinefili. Se non siete fans adoranti, lasciate perdere.
- Dragan Antulov @ Draxblog VI [Croatian]
- Marina Antunes @ Quiet Earth
- Jason Bailey @ Flavorwire
- Excerpt: It is, make no mistake, a film filled with flaws. Try as I might, I cannot force myself to give a damn about them.
- Matthew Blevins @ Nextprojection.com
- Excerpt: Cloud Atlas requires attention, thought, revisitation, and a suspension of the infantile need for immediate comprehension, but it is a film that delivers rewards to those willing to give it the required effort.
- Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Excerpt: The one thing that can never be said against [it]is that it lacks conviction: even the things about it… are all victims of proud ambition, not of weak half-measures.
- Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: An impressive movie saluting the human propensity for telling stories as good medicine.
- Daniel Carlson @ Pajiba
- Kevin Carr @ 7M Pictures
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The filmmakers have essentially deconstructed the book to find its connective tissue, then reassembled it using flashforwards and flashbacks to bang us over the head with the novelist’s parallels and points…
- Tom Clift @ Moviedex
- Excerpt: A big, bold, beautiful work of staggering ambition and artistry
- Edwin Davies @ A Mighty Fine Blog
- Excerpt: [Cloud Atlas is] undoubtedly flawed, but wonderfully and fascinatingly so. It is guaranteed to divide people into passionate defenders and ardent detractors: I, for one, am happy to count myself among the former.
- Tony Dayoub @ Cinema Viewfinder
- Excerpt: Multiple viewings may yield more and longer lasting rewards once you start finding your way through the fog. But for those of us who only see a film once, Cloud Atlas is, at least, half of a great movie.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: Enormously ambitious in scope, bizarrely experimental in execution, and equal parts straightforward and confounding in its ideas.
- Candice Frederick @ Reel Talk
- Excerpt: And they love it for what’s it’s trying to show–how our past, present and future lives impact one another. But does it actually show that? Yes, but in a way that is frustrating in some areas.
- Kimberly Gadette @ doddle
- Excerpt: While each of the six chapters swirls and morphs and dances around the others, at the end of three hours, it’s hard to resist thinking, “Is that all there is?”
- Panagiotis Gkaris @ Movies Ltd
- Excerpt: The downside remains though that Cloud Atlas is virtually unwatchable from head to toe, in regard of cohesion, structure, evolution of characters, elaboration on motives and perspective.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Gorgeous and glorious, this unconventional, epic fantasy is a visceral and visual feast.
- Vadym Grygoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian]
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Insanely grand… My god, I love this movie. It’s every movie. It’s the ultimate movie.
- [New – 10/3] | Jennie Kermode @ Eye For Film
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Josh Larsen @ LarsenOnFilm.com
- Excerpt: Even its detractors – and this is a movie that’s easy to take potshots at – will have to admit that Cloud Atlas is more fluid than it has any right to be.
- Matt Looker @ TheShiznit.co.uk
- Excerpt: It is a hugely ambitious and impressive undertaking, the mere attempt of which should be applauded, let alone the lengths at which the Wachowskis et Tykwer actually achieve this vision.
- Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
- Excerpt: Is love a universal truth or is social justice? Are they inextricably tied? Cloud Atlas wants to be everything for everyone and while having a bevy of subjects to latch onto and celebrate, the lack of focus causes the film to struggle through some of its duller moments.
- Carson Lund @ Are the Hills Going to March Off?
- Excerpt: Cloud Atlas is some kind of meteoric event, risking catastrophe at every turn and obliterating the sanctions of good taste.
- Marty Mapes @ Movie Habit
- Excerpt: Mash-up works best if you don’t take it too seriously
- Piers Marchant @ Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
- Peter Martin @ Dallas Film Now
- Excerpt: Wildly ambitious, visually sumptuous, and head-achingly confounding, Cloud Atlas is an experience that aims to be profoundly moving. Whether it succeeds is another matter entirely.
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Matthew McKernan @ FilmWhinge
- Excerpt: Cloud Atlas has a wealth of ideas, a strong cast and an almost fearless willingness to take some big risks, all of which mark it out as something of a misnomer in Hollywood’s recent output.
- Brent McKnight @ Beyond Hollywood
- Ryan McNeil @ The Matinee
- Excerpt: An audacious new film poses the theory that our lives are not our own: That we are bound to others – past and present. Can it make its case with grace? Or miss the mark from excess?
- Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix
- Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: Bound together by technical skill as much as by fate…
- Kenneth R. Morefield @ Christianity Today
- Excerpt: It is hard to think of another film in recent memory in which the accumulation of so much talent has rendered so little.
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Tiago Ramos @ Split Screen [Portuguese]
- Jonathan Richards @ www,jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: If you see only one movie this year, perhaps it should be Cloud Atlas. Not that it’s a great movie , but it’s six movies for the price of one.
- Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: Cloud Atlas is the kind of grand film going experience that lingers in your mind. In piecing it together again, you discover things that you didn’t catch while watching it, making you want to see it again just to check your math.
- Marcio Sallem @ Cinema com Crítica [Portuguese]
- Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: Let Cloud Atlas pour over you. It’s an amazing achievement in visual story-telling, a fascinating and intelligent view of the future and among my favorite films of the year.
- Norm Schrager @ Meet In the Lobby
- Excerpt: … a brisk, cinematic showcase of excitement and surprises.
- Amir Siregar @ Flick Magazine [Indonesian]
- Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: For a movie pitched as a Meta-Meta exploration linking all of humanity through the distant past to the recent past to the faraway future, it nosedives before getting out of the gate.
- Matthew Sorrento @ Film International
- Frank Swietek @ One Guy’s Opinion
- Excerpt: Certainly ambitious, but…comes thudding down to earth pretty quickly.
- Sam Turner @ Film Intel
- Excerpt: stays faithful to what David Mitchell’s book does but where his is a labour of execution Tykwer and The Wachowski’s can only try’
- Jean-François Vandeuren @ Panorama-cinema.com [French]
- Andrew Wyatt @ Look / Listen (St. Louis Magazine)
