...a lackluster adaptation of a rather disappointing McEwan work.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 23, 2020

While such a premise seems like a tear-jerker, the story thankfully leans away from sentimentality. Instead, it's a more subtle look at loss and love - if you can keep track of what is going on.

| May 15, 2019

The reason to tune in and watch this series is the pairing of Cumberbatch and McDonald, hands down.

| Jan 31, 2019

A version of McEwan's tale so partial you wondered why they bothered.

| Jul 11, 2018

Stephen Campbell Moore brought man-boy Charles to life, maximising minimal screen time to take us back to a state of childlike innocence.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 11, 2018

These assorted fragments feel like loose add-ons rather than integral parts of a unified whole. Still, there is never going to be a magic formula for transposing the allusive, imaginative world of fiction into screen drama.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 11, 2018

The ending, which might have made a serviceable starting point for a second half, feels trite and unsatisfying. That said, the pairing of Cumberbatch and Macdonald is terrific.

| Jul 11, 2018

An absorbing, haunting and heartbreaking drama.

| Jul 11, 2018

The time motif plays an important and almost supernatural role in the story, but its effects are more poetic than anything.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 11, 2018

There is hope, there is another side for those left behind, and for The Child in Time it is hard won, but builds to this conclusion deliberately and beautifully.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 2, 2018

This is adult drama unsullied by melodrama, about anguish and ultimately about the small hopes that keep the bereaved alive and barely alert.

| Apr 2, 2018

Let the lovely English landscapes, and the haunting power of memory and regret, wash over you, like they do in life. It may not make perfect sense, but there are worse ways to spend 90 minutes than in Cumberbatch's excellent company.

| Apr 2, 2018

The actors are convincing, honest and heartbreaking. It's the hardest kind of thing to do. They do it splendidly.

| Mar 30, 2018

The movie is nevertheless compelling, thanks largely to the interplay between [Benedict] Cumberbatch and [Kelly] Macdonald, in what amounts to a peculiar twist on a love story within the up-close-and-personal contours of a stage play.

| Mar 30, 2018

Macdonald gives a lovely performance, the scenery is gorgeous, and the finale supplies an unforgettable twist.

| Mar 30, 2018

Credit PBS's Masterpiece film The Child in Time... starring Benedict Cumberbatch, with tearing the Band-Aid off its difficult-to-watch premise.

| Mar 29, 2018

Children get lost -- we're used to that fact as the foundation of dramatic literature - but The Child in Time is about the child who can get "lost" as we grow into adulthood. That loss is also profound.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 26, 2018

Despite the splendid cast, The Child In Time felt smug, affected and monotonous. The complicated storyline of the book quite simply didn't work when condensed into a 온라인카지노추천 show.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 6, 2017

As the raw emotion faded, it became not so much unsettling to watch as just odd.

| Nov 3, 2017

Hard to recommend, as it was so sad but, on the other hand, it was so good at what it is like to be so sad.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 16, 2017