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Anna Karenina

2012

Joe Wright

Keira Knightley, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jude Law, Domhnall Gleeson ...

6.0

12,946

Romance. Drama Late 19th century, Russian high society. At the age of 18, demure and elegant socialite Anna Karenina (Keira Knightley) has been promised to marry senior statesman Count Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin (Jude Law). Her new husband is 20 years Anna's senior and although the young woman doesn't love her rather dull and unemotional spouse, she bears him a son. While at a ball, Anna finds herself attracted to a young, wealthy cavalry officer ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"In making the radical artistic choice to tell the story as if it were being enacted by players on a stage, Wright falls passionately in love with his own fanciful artifices"	POS
United States	Leslie Felperin Variety	"Joe Wright makes the generally inspired decision to stylize his dark, expressionist take on 'Anna Karenina' (...) but its covert anti-romanticism may limit appeal beyond specialty auds.	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"This tight and pacy telling of a 900 page-plus novel touches a number of its important bases but lacks emotional depth, moral resonance and the simple ability to allow its rich characters to experience and drink deeply of life"	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"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"	POS
United States	Rex Reed The New York Observer	"James Joyce once wrote that [Tolstoy] was 'never dull, never stupid, never tired, pedantic or theatrical.' He might change his mind if he saw Anna Karenina.	NEG

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