...through her own eyes but those of her Catholic grandmother (the "Empress" of the title). "On Chesil Beach" by Ian McEwan. I've had reservations about McEwan's fiction in the past, but this short novel, about a honeymooning couple who...

...and brute fact's stubborn refusal to be concealed. Christopher Hampton's screenplay respects the literary focus of Ian McEwan's novel without falling into the trap of becoming uncinematic. Director Joe Wright ("Pride and Prejudice") gives...