ultrashort movie review: Cloud Atlas

I think I loved this movie. Not sure I “got it.” But it’s beautiful and moving. It’s almost 3 hours long but each minute was essential. The actors played multiple characters from different time periods and the make-up was pretty sloppy and distracting. But that might have been on purpose to remind the audience that, “see, this is the same actor because we’re illustrating that everything is connected, get it? get it?” Not sure if this movie is pedantic or not. I still liked it and I’ll watch it again. **** (out of 5)