Anna Karenina (2012)

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  • Opened November 16, 2012 
  • 2 hr 10 min
  • R | Some sexuality and violence
  • Parents: Common Sense Media says OK for kids 16+. More on child suitability

  • The third collaboration of Academy Award nominee Keira Knightley with acclaimed director Joe Wright, following the award-winning box office successes “Pride & Prejudice” and “Atonement,” is a bold, theatrical new vision of the epic story of love, adapted from Leo Tolstoy’s timeless novel by Academy Award winner Tom Stoppard (“Shakespeare in Love”). The story powerfully explores the capacity for love that surges through the human heart. As Anna (Ms. Knightley) questions her happiness and marriage, change comes to all around her. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Johnson, Matthew MacFadyen, Domhnall Gleeson
  • Director: Joe Wright
  • Genres: Drama

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Beautifully engaging

by MedRed

Anna Karenina takes place in some of the most lavish and detailed settings to grace the big screen. This movie is a feast for the eyes. The scene transitions happen as if on a stage in a...

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Beautiful vision

by pennylane67

Anna Karenina is enchanting. Part film, part play...fantastic. The performances were stirring. Keira Knightly plays Anna in such a moving yet subtle peformance. Aaron Johnson was amazing. His...

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Enjoyable and fun but far from the novel

by oksanah

It is of course impossible to transform the whole book on to the screen of a movie theater but I thought a better job could have been accomplished. A lot of important parts have been ommited and...

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Rolling Stone
| Peter Travers

The story has been filmed many times, but never with this kind of erotic charge. Knightley is glorious, her eyes blazing with a carnal yearning that can turn vindictive at any perceived slight. Read full review

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Entertainment Weekly
| Lisa Schwarzbaum

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. Read full review

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Movieline
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Scripted by playwright Tom Stoppard, the film labors to fit Tolstoy's sprawling story into its two hour and ten minute runtime by drawing its characters with minimal lines. Read full review

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NPR
| Ella Taylor

Inner life comes hard to Knightley, and she never gets a grip on the mounting emotional turmoil that threatens to crush Anna as she progresses from stylish young hipster-about-town to kept woman to bereft mother to paranoid social pariah. Read full review

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Aaron Johnson as Count Vronsky and Keira Knightley as Anna in "Anna Karenina."