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Jun 15, 2023bell5133 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
It’s not a musical, but it resembles a play. The movie shows the theater/stage often, and sometimes the unnecessary characters are frozen in place or stamping papers in unrealistic unison. These things can take your mind out of the movie,…
Sep 06, 2022Cbalsum rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I absolutely loved this movie. It was cinematically breath taking. I went into it with very low expectations because of the negative reviews and was pleasantly surprised. Having just read the book, I thought the movie kept with the…
Oct 28, 2021Nursebob rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Artifice and stagecraft bring Tolstoy’s grand tragedy to clinking, clanking life but when the final curtain drifts across the screen you’re left wondering if all that pomp was worth it. Not really. Director Joe Wright’s lavish production…
Jun 10, 2021firefly5 rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
Not what I expected. Did not watch.
Jan 27, 202110000mefest rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
I loved the cast, and the acting was great. But I felt there was something a little disjointed in the script with the alternation between a theater stage and 'reality" in the presentation of this classic story. The switching back and…
Aug 27, 2018JCLIanH rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A cinematically inventive and seemingly brisk adaptation of an exhaustive, very non-brisk novel. Joe Wright and Tom Stoppard do a magnificent job paring the source text down into a beautiful, heartbreaking film.
Mar 27, 2018dissymissylessy rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
i enjoyed watching Alicia Vikander act. Also a pleasure to watch Kelly Macdonald act. The director directed Keira in ATONEMENT; they obviously work well together. Jude Law is nearly unrecognizable with his hair in front of his head,…
Nov 22, 2017vickmeister rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I had high hopes for this movie. I looked forward to enjoying a lavish historical tale featuring some of my favorite actors (Jude Law, Keira Knightley). I ended up disappointed. I found it confusing and hard to follow, with the director's…
Nov 20, 2017skinnyminnybean rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I know it's a "Classic." Done well, but the subject-line is tired. Costumes, setting, passion. C+
Oct 04, 2017Olgalevin rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Not really a fan of movies that seem to only take place on one stage and nowhere else. Only giving 3 stars for the acting which I thought was pretty good.
Jul 13, 2017Courier2003 rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
Way too long and boring. Kept jumping around from scene to scene.
Jun 30, 2017JCLSheidaB rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
A breathtakingly beautiful rendition of the Russian classic. I just wish someone else, anyone else, had played Vronsky.
Sep 08, 2016akirakato rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
This is a 2012 British historical romance directed by Joe Wright, adapted by Tom Stoppard from Leo Tolstoy's 1877 novel of the same name. The film depicts the tragedy of Russian aristocrat and socialite Anna Karenina, wife of senior…
Aug 27, 2016TEENREVIEWCREW rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This is really a wonderful movie!! of course it will be - I'm not surprised, because it is one of Leo Tolstoy novels. It is really the best romantic movie that I've ever watched, my favourite character is Anna's husband he is really the…
Jun 03, 2016TSCPL_ChrisB rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A more interesting and vivid adaptation of the book than the Garbo version. This version had its flaws (ie Sergei was about as animate as the bed he lay in), but overall I enjoyed it. The visual play Wright added to the story did…
Mar 22, 2016KatherineHere rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Lavish, beautiful, dramatic, and extremely....odd.
Dec 02, 2015mrsid rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
I would liken this adaptation to eating a bucket of Turkish delight in one sitting-I lasted less than half an hour,the Dr's appointment is on Monday. Gaudy,embarrassing, miscast,shallow,avoid.
May 07, 2015joywolf83 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Amazing
Apr 23, 2015MICHAEL TAGGART MALONEY rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This is the Joe Wright (PRIDE & PREJUDICE and ATONEMENT) directed, Tom Stoppard adapted film of Tolstoy's classic adultery novel. Keira Knightley is fine as Anna; so too is Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Vronsky. They're both radiant. But there…
Jan 06, 2015Chapel_Hill_KenMc rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This is a rather surrealistic and stylistic interpretation that won't appeal to traditionalists. The sets are stunning, in any case.
Dec 12, 2014durogoff rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Tolstoy as a crypto-musical? Irreverent! The costumes? OK, but not better than those in a good ballet. The locomotive piston as a metaphor for sex? Used an cliche. (I must admit I just turned it off after half an hour...)
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Oct 13, 2014NewYorkViews rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A wonderful artistic version of the Tolstoy novel. It followed the novel in most respects of the romances in the Russian Imperial aristocracy, and had some innovative approaches that utilized creative set design. The casting was…
Jun 02, 2014sbaguyos rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Very creative telling of the original story. It didn't include all the characters or scenes in the book (Kitty meeting Levin's brother at a spa), but the most important elements of the story were intact. The artistic portrayal of the horse…
EmilyBoban
Apr 27, 2014
*************SPOILER ALERT*************** You can definitely foresee that Anna gets crushed by the train because in the beginning, she thinks the coal smith is gross, and then later on other people start thinking that she's gross.
EmilyBoban
Apr 27, 2014
*************SPOILER ALERT*************** You can definitely foresee that Anna gets crushed by the train because in the beginning, she thinks the coal smith is gross, and then later on other people start thinking that she's gross.