Atonement was a great piece of film-making. Joe Wright delivers an ambitious second, feature-length film. (Pride & Prejudice never should have been re-made IMHO.) The film teeters on the edge of perhaps of trying too hard, but ultimately delivers. There is a much talked about long take during wartime and just when you think the film might succumb to sentimentality …

Great performances all around. The cinematography is special. Even the score is original. Well-deserved praise and probably would have won more awards had the field not been so thick with other good films.