The curtain rises. The orchestra comes to life. Tragedy commences. At first glance, everything about the holiday movie extravaganza Anna Karenina seems familiar. Then, its well-known characters, the ...

A stunning set of images from the 2012 film Anna Karenina has resurfaced on X (formerly Twitter), reigniting admiration for Keira Knightley’s performance and the film’s breathtaking cinematography.

USA TODAY Review: **1/2 out of four Stars: Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Taylor-Johnson; Director: Joe Wright Rated R; Runtime: 2 hours, 10 minutes; Opens Friday in select cities The re-invented ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Though the involvement of director Joe Wright ...

Last spring, Joe Wright had a big perplexing idea. After having scouted locations in St. Petersburg and Moscow for his screen version of Anna Karenina, he decided to start all over—two months before ...

Get a first look at Knightley's gorgeous new movie looks – and hear style secrets from her past films Oscar-nominated costume designer Jacqueline Durran collaborates with director Joe Wright and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... * * * Period drama. Rated R. 130 minutes. At area theaters. “Anna Karenina” is a cinematic jewel. Leo Tolstoy’s tale about a married socialite’s affair with ...

While on a trip to Ukraine, I read Anna Karenina. I leave it to the reader both of the book and of this brief post to determine the type of personality that Leo Tolstoy, the author, portrays. The ...

What Anna Karenina does well, it does extremely well. An exquisite exercise in staging and costume, the film is an haute couture parade of choreography and design so gorgeous that if it doesn’t ...

When you wait as long as I did to read “Anna Karenina” for the first time — I’ll be 50 in August — there’s no way you can come to it without any preconceptions. For one thing, I already knew the ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

Eschewing the classical realism that's characterized most adaptations of Tolstoy's source novel, helmer Joe Wright makes the generally inspired decision to stylize his dark, expressionist take on ...