Who payed the critics

A Brilliant Conflict

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

I was ready to punch the eject button on the player after about 15-20 minutes. The movie, however, was laying the ground work for an excellent story during that time and, frankly, it got a little old but I stuck with it. Then Briony told her lie and off the story went. My rating went from 2, maybe 3, to a 9 by the time the credits rolled. That has never happened to me before. And what an ending. The acting, the direction, the music, the sets, the costumes, and the story were all worthy of at least a 9. 9 or 10s are very rare for me.

And that typewriter sound. the music is bad enough without that patronizing, embarrassing gesture to "remind" us about the fictitious version of the account... wow, what a visionary move lol

Watched this movie again for third time . First time was mid 2008 about 10 years ago but still like I am watching it for first time . one of best drama I ve ever seen !

Looks like I'm one of the few out there that was not a fan of the movie. While I think the acting was superb, the sets and locations were stunning and visually appealing, the sound track was wonderful, the style of the movie was not to my liking. The movie is written in snippets, telling a story, then back filling it in. It continues to do this throughout the entire length of the movie, and I found it at times hard to follow and cumbersome. I don't believe the actual story line made itself known until about and 1 1/2 hours into the movie, and I was disappointed in how it wrapped itself up. I didn't hate it, but won't be keeping it on my list of movies to re-watch.