Variety
Director Joe Wright makes the generally inspired decision to stylize his dark, expressionist take...
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Anna Karenina
Keira Knightley and Jude Law star in this stylised adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s classic romance novel, set in the upper-class world of 19th-century Russia. From director Joe Wright (Atonement) and Oscar-winning screenwriter Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love). Follows the tragic romance between married aristocrat and socialite Anna (Knightley) and the affluent Count Vronsky (Aaron Johnson).
This marks Wright and Knightley's third collaboration, after Atonement and Pride & Prejudice.
Best Costume Design at the Academy Awards and the BAFTA Awards 2013.
2012Rating: M, contains sex scenes124 minsUK, France
DramaRomanceHistorical
- Director:
- Joe Wright ('Atonement', 'Pride & Prejudice', 'Hanna')
- Writer:
- Tom Stoppard
- Cast:
- Keira KnightleyKelly MacdonaldAaron JohnsonJude LawMatthew MacfadyenMichelle DockeryEmily WatsonOlivia WilliamsHolliday GraingerRuth Wilson
Anna Karenina / Reviews
Total Film
Rather than involve us in the story Wright's grandiose concept keeps it at arm's length.
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It is risky and ambitious enough to count as an act of artistic hubris, and confident enough to triumph on its own slightly - wonderfully - crazy terms.
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Roger Ebert
A sumptuous film - extravagantly staged and photographed, perhaps too much so for its own good.
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Hollywood Reporter
The weight of its intellectual distancing device presses much of the life and feeling out of it.
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Empire Magazine
If it doesn't ultimately engage your heart as it might, Anna Karenina is period drama at its most exciting, intoxicating and modern. Spellbinding.
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A.V. Club
There's no deadlier sort of movie than a stodgy literary adaptation. Thankfully, Joe Wright seems incapable of making one.
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