In the futuristic sections of the novel "Cloud Atlas," by author David Mitchell, there are a few clues to tell readers that those parts aren't set in our own times. There are those perfectly human ...

Three directors, three reviewers. A nonlinear take on the sprawling movie adaptation of David Mitchell's time-hopping novel.

PHOTOS: ‘Cloud Atlas’ Premiere: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Keanu Reeves Hit Red Carpet Based on the novel by David Mitchell , Cloud Atlas tells a series of stories that transcend time.

Cloud Atlas is that rare novel that balances seemingly incompatible opposites. The story is addictively readable - David Mitchell mixes adventure stories, thrillers, science fiction and the ...

The "Cloud Atlas" film, based on a novel by David Mitchell, tells the story of Sonmi~451 slowly awakening to the industrialized horror of a future society, one that treats genetically modified ...

Adapted from David Mitchell’s 2004 novel of the same name, “Cloud Atlas” is ... yet another chapter begins and ends with scenes of a tragic choice whose logic is not adequately explained in ...

Like his 2004 novel, Cloud Atlas takes us through different moments in time, six stories to be precise, each about a struggle to do what is right in the face of adversity, a common theme but never ...

David Mitchell's exquisite novel Cloud Atlas has been adapted for the screen by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer. The film is never dull, but critic David Edelstein found that unlike the book, the ...

Which is a good thing, because Cloud Atlas needed a lot of time to get explained. Based on the David Mitchell novel, Cloud Atlas told a story spanning six different time periods, with the same ...

My 2004 novel "Cloud Atlas" opens in 1850, with a notary on an island-hopping voyage from the South Pacific to San Francisco. But that narrative gets interrupted by another story, set in the 1930s ...