
Variety
Director Joe Wright makes the generally inspired decision to stylize his dark, expressionist take...
Full reviewKeira 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.
LessDirector Joe Wright makes the generally inspired decision to stylize his dark, expressionist take...
Full reviewRather than involve us in the story Wright's grandiose concept keeps it at arm's length.
Full reviewIt 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.
Full reviewA sumptuous film - extravagantly staged and photographed, perhaps too much so for its own good.
Full reviewThe weight of its intellectual distancing device presses much of the life and feeling out of it.
Full reviewIf it doesn't ultimately engage your heart as it might, Anna Karenina is period drama at its most exciting, intoxicating and modern. Spellbinding.
Full reviewThere's no deadlier sort of movie than a stodgy literary adaptation. Thankfully, Joe Wright seems incapable of making one.
Full reviewAnna Karenina is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV.
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