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Author: gillianmwells [ Profile | Reviews ]
Dated: Friday December 14 2007
Review: Whilst the individual actors are excellent in their own right the film was painfully slow and extremely disappointing. The length should have been reduced to avoid 'watching paint dry moments' and I felt that an excellent cast was undermined by po... full review

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Author: A Yahoo! User
Dated: Wednesday November 21 2007
Review: The only good thing about this film was an exemplary performance by James McAvoy. The story was as weak as the direction. The depiction of the war showed James McAvoy wandering around aimlessly in a field and then on a beach in France. Kiera Knigh... full review

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Author: suetrumpet [ Profile | Reviews ]
Dated: Monday October 15 2007
Review: Excellent film. Captivating storyline with different levels of sub-text excellently executed visually creating atmosheric reality throughout. The grim and frightening war images were made more poignant by the salubrious country life of the pre-war arist... full review

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Author: allcad35 [ Profile | Reviews ]
Dated: Friday October 12 2007
Review: A visually superb film. James McAvoy certainly, for me at least, steals the acting honours. The photography is stunning and the film certainly has a 1930's feel about it. For only his second film Joe Wright is showing himself to be a first class ... full review

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Author: moira.martindale [ Profile | Reviews ]
Dated: Thursday October 4 2007
Review: absorbing and atmospheric. the acting throughout was excellent and the photography and scenes beautiful. i believe the interview with briony at the end , whilst necessary , could have been improved upon . it seemed too simple and somehow quickly 'wra... full review

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Author: A Yahoo! User
Dated: Wednesday October 3 2007
Review: absolutely stunning. brilliant acting, brilliant story. A film that totally absorbs you from the first minute to the last, and one of the most emotional endings of regret. if this does not win an oscar i will eat my hat. see it, and be enveloped. full review

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Author: A Yahoo! User
Dated: Monday September 24 2007
Review: Very visual film with a good performance by McEvoy, but very disappointing given the hype. Keira Knightly just plays herself as always. I have read the book and definitley understood what was going on better than my friend who hadn't, too many flashb... full review

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Author: kathbjones [ Profile | Reviews ]
Dated: Friday September 21 2007
Review: I must say that their has not been a romantic film produce like this for years. The chemistry between the two (Keira and James) made the story feel so real. What I really enjoyed throughout the whole film, is you really did not know what was going happe... full review

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Author: longton1 [ Profile | Reviews ]
Dated: Monday September 17 2007
Review: wonderful........... A must for all of us who remember this era , The boys in kaki, the beautiful dresses,when women looked and acted like females. A time to waller in nostalgia...........so pack the tissues and enjoy a sad ending . Could we be looki... full review

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Author: laurie9341 [ Profile | Reviews ]
Dated: Friday September 14 2007
Review: This film was so good! I loved it! Everything was perfect. It had bits of everything in. It is definitely a film to go to see with friends and tissues are needed for everyone! Trust me. full review