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Byline: John Powers
Hollywood loves turning popular books into even more popular movies. This year, Keira Knightley and James McAvoy (right) star in Atonement, based on Ian McEwan's fine World War II-era novel about love, loss, and dislocation. Those themes come dressed more exotically in Silk, taken from Alessandro Baricco's book about a French silkworm merchant (Michael Pitt) who falls for a Japanese concubine despite his wife, played by, yes, Keira Knightley, who seems to star in every movie. So does Scarlett Johansson, whose Annie Braddock ...