The verdict is in.

Cloud Atlas premiered at midnight, and it has received very mixed reviews...

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"Hugely ambitious and hugely entertaining, one of the most fun and most provocative films of the year." -MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filospher

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"Maybe if you're 20 years old and high in your dorm room with your friends, the platitudes presented here might seem profound. Anyone else in his or her right mind should recognize it for what it is: a bloated, pseudo-intellectual, self-indulgent slog through some notions that are really rather facile." -Christy Lemire, AP Movie Critic

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"The film is indeed a powerful and engaging piece of filmmaking, once again proving that the Wachowskis (along with Tom Tykwer) are among the most ambitious new-wave filmmakers to emerge out of the late-'90s new wave." -Scott Mendelson, Huffington Post

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"Finally, what sinks Cloud Atlas is not the largeness of its ambitions but the lack of skill it displays in terms of writing, directing and acting. Earthbound when it wants to be soaring, striving for a kind of profundity that is out of its grasp, this is simply not the film everyone hoped it would be." -Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

I'm about halfway through the book. (I told you this is that kind of book club.) I'm hoping to finish it by next week and still looking forward to seeing the movie. We have to form our own opinions, right?

Happy reading,
Kaley