Atonement, the movie, that is. It’s a pompous name for a period-piece rife with anachronisms and full of idiotic gimmicks. And, speaking of time, it has a queer device that scatters time-frames without warning. The story itself is so laborious and slow that maybe the jumping back-and-forth in time in haphazard fashion WAS DESIGNED TO [...]

Atonement, the movie, that is. It’s a pompous name for a period-piece rife with anachronisms and full of idiotic gimmicks. And, speaking of time, it has a queer device that scatters time-frames without warning. The story itself is so laborious and slow that maybe the jumping back-and-forth in time in haphazard fashion WAS DESIGNED TO [...]

Atonement, the movie, that is. It’s a pompous name for a period-piece rife with anachronisms and full of idiotic gimmicks. And, speaking of time, it has a queer device that scatters time-frames without warning. The story itself is so laborious and slow that maybe the jumping back-and-forth in time in haphazard fashion WAS DESIGNED TO [...]