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Focus Features | Release Date: December 7, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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The New YorkerAnthony Lane
You have to admire it, when so much of the competition seems inane and slack, but you can’t help wondering, with some impatience, what happened to its heart. Read full review
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The New York TimesA.O. Scott
Atonement fails to be anything more than a decorous, heavily decorated and ultimately superficial reading of the book on which it is based. Read full review
40
Film ThreatJeff Beresford-Howe
Imagine if the team that made "The English Patient" tried to make the same kind of movie, with even more brave-lads-fighting-the-Jerries porn and this time with Extra Added English country manor porn, and without really good actors, and this movie is what you’d have. Read full review
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