Salon ArtsA furiously ambitious literary adaptation, the best of Wright and Knightley's careers, that tries to make us feel the intens...
New York Daily NewsAnna is daring enough to seduce us, if ultimately incapable of breaking our hearts.
The New York TimesIt is risky and ambitious enough to count as an act of artistic hubris, and confident enough to triumph on its own slightly ...
The Boston GlobeThere's a coldness to the new Anna Karenina that has nothing to do with the white stuff piled up along the streets of 19th-c...
Wall Street JournalThe ropes and curtains and ladders of this Anna Karenina serve mainly as distractions. And they're solutions to a part of th...
USA TodayAn intoxicating spectacle that breathes new life into the classic Tolstoy novel, incorporating the notion that all life's a ...
San Francisco ChronicleWright made the movie he wanted to make, and he made it well. It just wasn't worth making.
Washington PostWright's Anna Karenina sings, dances and finally soars, even as its legendary heroine plunges to her most self-destructive d...
New York PostA handsome, grandly theatrical reimagining of the Tolstoy novel starring his muse, Keira Knightley.
Rolling StoneThis story has been filmed many times, but never with this kind of erotic charge. Knightley is glorious. My advice is to let...
The Philadelphia InquirerIt's hard not to admire Wright's bold approach to Anna Karenina's story of longing and jealousy and societal condemnation.
The New YorkerThe metaphorical force of this conceit-insisting on the artifice of the social world that frowns on rapture-is not hard to g...
Chicago TribuneIt's a half-success -- a baldly conceptual response to the Leo Tolstoy novel, with a heavy theatrical framework placed aroun...
The Christian Sciene MonitorThis is the kind of conceptual schema one might expect from a faux visionary like Baz Luhrmann (“Romeo and Juliet,” “Moulin ...
Chicago Sun-TimesAnna Karenina and Madame Bovary are two of the most notorious fallen women in literature.
Entertainment WeeklyIt takes a fair amount of excavating to reach Leo Tolstoy's contribution to director Joe Wright's very busy movie, written b...
ReelViewsLike Frankenstein and Hamlet, Anna Karenina is a literary touchstone that filmmakers return to on a regular basis.
Film School RejectsGorgeous, lush, and bold, Anna Karenina is a true feast for the eyes from its settings to its costumes and jewelry; Knightle...
Film FractureInterestingly presented and visually impressive, the movie is a triumph of spectacle over substance but, without things happ...
TelegraphKeira Knightley and director Joe Wright have produced a dazzling, highly theatrical adaptation of Tolstoy's classic novel
TelegraphKeira Knightley's Anna Karenina is a headstrong, inescapably actressy creation, full of fussy vitality and verve, writes Tim...
The GuardianSet in a fantasy theatre world, Tom Stoppard and Joe Wright's bold adaptation – starring Keira Knightley and Jude Law – sacr...
TelegraphKeira Knightley is a fine Anna - alternately charming, haughty, and dispirited in Joe Wright's new adaptation of Anna Kareni...
JobloSo- while I wish Wright had stuck to his guns, and avoided going down a more conventional path in the last third, I still th...
Total FilmPimped, primped and dressed to the nines, Joe Wright's Tols-toy story looks the business. Like a disappointing Christmas pre...
Black Sheep Reviews"Anna Karenina" will constantly surprise and delight the more open-minded viewer.
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Partial Film Information
Director: Joe Wright
Writer: Joe Wright
Studio: Focus Features
Cast: Keira Knightley, Aaron Johnson, Jude Law
Release: November 9, 2012
Writer: Joe Wright
Studio: Focus Features
Cast: Keira Knightley, Aaron Johnson, Jude Law
Release: November 9, 2012
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