First things first: Is David Mitchell’s new novel The Bone Clocks another Cloud Atlas, a multi-era-spanning masterpiece of literary ambition and dexterity? The Bone Clocks twines around Holly Sykes, a ...

It’s hard to know quite what to make of “Cloud Atlas,” adapted and directed by Lana and Andy Wachowski (“The Matrix”) and Tom Tykwer (“Run Lola Run,” “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer”) — for ambition ...

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 ...

Against tough odds, David Mitchell’s complex novel “Cloud Atlas” is now coming to screens. Here’s a look at how the pieces of that improbable story fit together.

No woman was ever ruined by a book, New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker famously said, but filmmakers are always being seduced by them, with unlucky audiences left to pay the price. The latest case in ...

Of the six stories in six time frames that are cut into small pieces and deftly dovetailed in “Cloud Atlas,” one—that of the present day—is like a shield to render the movie critic-proof: a plotline ...