Cloud Atlas

This spellbinding adaptation of a supposedly “unfilmable” novel achieves near-perfection on virtually all levels.

"...moral center. Evil is all over the place in Cloud Atlas – in the futuristic megalopolis of Neo Seoul..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Hologram for the King

Tom Hanks stars in this seriocomic take on Dave Eggers’ 2012 novel

"...should face better commercial prospects than their last co-effort, Cloud Atlas. Based on Dave Eggers’ 2012 novel (a National..."

April 22, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jupiter Ascending

The Wachowskis' space opera starring Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum is a visual dazzler but a narrative splice-and-dice.

"...and Andy Wachowski, directors/writers/fabulators of the Matrix trilogy and Cloud Atlas return with an old-fashioned space opera that borrows..."

Feb. 6, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Marjorie Baumgarten's Top 10 list

Marjorie Baumgarten's Top 10s

"...2) Cloud Atlas It's the only movie this year that brought..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Each in Its Own Language

The year in books, 2004

"...1. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (Random House, $14.95, paper): "Spent..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Kimberley Jones' Top 10 list

Kimberley Jones' Top 10s

"...10) Cloud Atlas I'm not convinced it isn't quasi-spiritual hoo-ha, but..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Austin Film Critics Association Announces Year-End Awards

'Zero Dark Thirty' named Best Film of 2012

"...Best Score: Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek, and Tom Tykwer, Cloud Atlas..."

Dec. 21, 2012 Screens Feature

The Reason I Jump

Poetic insight into autism, based on Naoki Higashida memoir

"...translated into English in 2013 by novelist David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas) and his wife K.A. Yoshida, themselves the parents..."

Jan. 8, 2021 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Under the Skin

Scarlett Johansson is the blank alien who prowls for earthmen in this spare and disorienting genre smash-up.

"...visuals work from UK effects house One of Us (Cloud Atlas, The Tree of Life) and you have a..."

April 18, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVD Bonus: Meet the Fraggles

Jim Henson's fantastical creations dance our cares away

"...Cloud Atlas (Warner) A close run with The Hobbit for..."

May 15, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Impressed, Yes, but Socks Still Firmly On

It was a good year for movies – but was it great?

"...4) Cloud Atlas (11)..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Local Critics Pick ‘Zero Dark Thirty’

Austin Film Critics Association names P.T. Anderson Best Director

"...Best Score: Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek, and Tom Tykwer, Cloud Atlas..."

Dec. 18, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

TV Review: 'The Hour'

New season of BBC America Fifties drama debuts tomorrow

"...caught his moving turn as a 1930s composer in Cloud Atlas); and a knotty past just glanced at between..."

Nov. 27, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

FF2012: The Good, The Bad, And the Weird of Fantastic Fest

Surviving the liver-crunching, spine tingling, head-expanding fest

"...two secret screenings to be a long-rumored sneak of Cloud Atlas. Post-showing they just hung out, with no more..."

Oct. 2, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel

From the author of Cloud Atlas, a tale of tenuous East/West relations in turn of the 19th century Japan

"...perfect nest to place his latest work. In 2004, Cloud Atlas solidified Mitchell's place as one of the most..."

July 2, 2010 Books Review by James Renovitch

The Year in Books

Freedom, Finkler, and Kids of America

"...of David Mitchell is obvious to anyone who reads Cloud Atlas. In that novel, Mitchell's ability to dance from..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Lit-urday: Slade House

David Mitchell lights up a compelling Joss shtick.

"...Here's Mitchell, author of Ghostwritten and number9dream and Cloud Atlas and so on, thick and complex works of..."

Oct. 31, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The AggreGAYtor: October 24

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...• Cloud Atlas director Lana Wachowski admits suicidal thoughts in stirring..."

Oct. 24, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

New, Not Improved

A familiar cover in an unfamiliar place

"...get this out of the way now: Yes, that's Cloud Atlas. Yes, still. I'd like to blame part of..."

May 14, 2012 Books Post by Monica Riese

Bedside Manner: Return to Treehouse

Cloudy with a chance of ice cream

"...that makes the cut these days is David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, recommended to me ages ago by my friend..."

Aug. 7, 2011 Books Post by Monica Riese

Bedside Manner: Let Freedom Ring

The latest invasion of privacy, another Chronicle bedside table.

"...this Modern Library edition. A borrowed paperback edition of Cloud Atlas by the young David Mitchell (Random House), this..."

Nov. 15, 2010 Books Post by Anne Harris

Increments of Destruction

Chris Jordan's 'Running the Numbers' at Austin Museum of Art

"...– David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas..."

July 2, 2010 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Best Books of 2006

"...Britain, I was a little concerned. I'd loved Mitchell's Cloud Atlas and Ghostwritten for the virtuosic range they demonstrated,..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Books Feature by Jess Sauer

Paradise, Loss

The year in reading, 2005

"...McEwan's Atonement in 2002, for instance, or David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas in 2004), this year saw no such standout...."

Jan. 6, 2006 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Top 10 National

Despite Austin's musical omnipresence, some national albums merited rating

"...4) Cloud Nothings, Cloud Nothings (Wichita)..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Music Feature

A Perfect View of Prague at Czech That Film Texas

Monthlong series highlights the cinema of the Czech Republic

"...his love for Czech films, especially now with the cloud hanging over Eastern Europe. With the anxiety and distrust..."

April 1, 2022 Screens Feature by Ikram Mohamed

Compose Yourself

SXSW Film announces first wave of conference sessions

"...and the Rightest) to new media issues (In The Cloud: Your Film in a Post-Ownership World, WTFair Use?! An..."

Oct. 26, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Read Local!

Recent recommended reads

"...Award finalist and College Station resident Martha Wells' The Cloud Roads is about warring clans; and Katy Staub­er –..."

May 27, 2011 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Day Trippin'

More day parties than you can shake an iPhone at

"...Sons & Daughters (1:15), DeVotchKa (2:30), Jim Noir (3:30), Cloud Cult (4:30), the Rascals (5:45) Obsolete Industries: Aliens (7pm),..."

March 11, 2008 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

This Changes Everything: Austin Witnesses to Sex Pistols' Chaotic Randy's Rodeo Show Go Home and Start Bands

UK instigators blow the roof off San Antonio dance hall in Chapter 4, Part 2, of the “Austin Punk Chronicles”

"...crew, and anyone in his radius from behind a cloud of marijuana smoke, commandeering the tour bus' stereo with..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

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