This stage version of Ian McEwan’s devastating class novel shows inspiring touches and the cast play adeptly, yet the tale’s emotional sweep feels underpowered Ian McEwan’s novel begins with a play.

Chichester Festival Theatre’s adaptation of the bestseller boasts some promising stars, but lacks the necessary detail Dominic Cavendish has been writing about theatre and comedy since the mid-1990s ...

Ian McEwen’s wildly popular 2001 novel is a story of love, lies and injustice with a passionate intensity that translated with devastating effect onto the big screen in 2007 with a screenplay by ...

A quarter of a century since the publication of Ian McEwan's critically acclaimed novel Atonement, its stage adaptation is to get a world premiere in West Sussex. The play - previously made into an ...

Early on in “Atonement,” there’s a battle so mired in the helter-skelter chaos of combat violence that it puts us right in the fog of war. Near the start of the conflict in Iraq in 2003, we’ve spent a ...

Atonement, the debut feature from filmmaker Reed Van Dyk, was one of the few American titles this year at Cannes. Inspired by true events, the film is set during the early days of the Iraq War, when a ...

The drama, which has its world premiere at Cannes, centers on a soldier who seeks out the family he devastated — and what it takes to make a combat film that tells the truth. By Mia Galuppo Senior ...

Cannes: Reed Van Dyk's intimate, psychologically astute, and true portrait of the human cost of U.S. imperial violence stars Hiam Abbass and Boyd Holbrook. This is a war film less ordinary, for it is ...

A confidently executed debut from US writer-director Reed Van Dyk, known for his 2017 Oscar-nominated short DeKalb Elementary, Atonement features a terrific performance from Boyd Holbrook (The ...

Kenneth Branagh plays a fictionalized version of combat journalist Dexter Filkins, whose 2012 New Yorker article chronicled the desire of a U.S. Marine to reconcile with an Iraqi family devastated by ...

Ahead of its world premiere in Cannes, Oscar-nominated director Reed Van Dyk‘s feature debut “Atonement” has been boarded by The Veterans for international sales. CAA Media Finance and WME Independent ...

Ian McEwan’s Atonement is being brought to the stage – and casting has been revealed. The well-known novel will be adapted for the stage by Christopher Hampton and receive its world premiere at ...