From my movie review in Taki's Magazine:

Atlas Shrugged: Part I is the most universally despised movie of 2011, but I liked it. Critics hate this adaptation of Ayn Rand's 1957 cult novel for predictable ideological reasons, while Randites are embarrassed that their exalted capitalist system failed to pony up the munificent financing necessary to give Rand's doorstop novel the blockbuster treatment they feel it deserves. ...

To my surprise, I quite enjoyed Atlas Shrugged. Although the story is a hymn to the overdog, this low-budget movie has underdog appeal. I soon started to root for the plucky filmmakers to pull off their high-wire act of making a movie that's distinctive-not distinguished, but still very 1957 in texture-without having anywhere near enough of the dollars that Rand idolized.

Read the whole thing there.