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By Peter Keough (994) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 15 Nov 2012

Though it distracts from the realism that makes the novel so immersive, the artificiality does highlight the most genuine aspect of the movie…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 15 Nov 2012

Does this crazy idea work? Maybe 70 percent of the time, but when it does it's both daring and brilliant…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 15 Nov 2012

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…

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By Matt Pais (1,519) for RedEye (906) on 15 Nov 2012

Maybe it's time to focus on coming up with new classics instead of constantly returning to the old ones…

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By Keith Phipps (1,177) for AV Club (2,778) on 15 Nov 2012

If only the emotions of the performances, the themes of the story, and Wright's cinematic virtuosity synced up more often…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 15 Nov 2012

This is a sumptuous film - extravagantly staged and photographed, perhaps too much so for its own good…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for Indiewire (3,631) on 15 Nov 2012

Wright's extraordinary long takes draw you into the universe of Anna Karenina with a seamless approach that a straightforward literary adaptation…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 15 Nov 2012

The new film staggers under such a weight of self-conscious visual style that the story never connects with a viewer's emotions…

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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 15 Nov 2012

The film's structure is so boldly conceived it seems unfair to focus on flaws…

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By Betsy Sharkey (695) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 15 Nov 2012

In the end Anna Karenina lets you down - visually stunning, emotionally overwrought, beautifully acted, but not quite right…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for New York Observer (1,400) on 14 Nov 2012

James Joyce once wrote that [Tolstoy] was never dull, never stupid, never tired, pedantic or theatrical…

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By Chris Barsanti (896) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 14 Nov 2012

Joe Wright's frenetic and daringly stagy adaptation unleashes the passions of Tolstoy's novel with a delicious abandon…

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By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Hollywood & Fine (854) on 14 Nov 2012

A sweepingly romantic film, one that earns its tragic climax without stinting on the richness of the source material…

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By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Nov 2012

Just as the characters created by Tolstoy the artist got the advantage of Tolstoy the polemicist - at least until the end of his life - so…

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By Matt Patches (283) for Hollywood.com (1,014) on 13 Nov 2012

We have expectations of what to expect from period romances. Anna Karenina defies them. Masterpiece Theater it is not…

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By Jordan Hoffman (1,025) for ScreenCrush (954) on 13 Nov 2012

Some may have an allergy to Wright's interior aesthetic that can't be explained away…

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By Keith Uhlich (870) for Time Out (7,510) on 13 Nov 2012

The more the visual ephemera piles up, the more the emotional thrust of the story gets buried beneath all the monotonous pageantry…

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By Leslie Felperin (768) for Variety (12,700) on 12 Nov 2012

Setting most of the action in a mocked-up theater emphasizes the performance aspects of the characters' behavior, a strategy enhanced by lead…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 12 Nov 2012

Every unhappy movie is unhappy in its own way, and Joe Wright's Anna Karenina is as boldly original a miscalculation as any you're likely to see…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 12 Nov 2012

The result is a masterpiece of moving pieces, a dizzying and obscenely beautiful film that boils down Tolstoy's text to its most basic elements…

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