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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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By Katey Rich (412) for CinemaBlend.com (1,378) on 11 Nov 2012

Anna Karenina is a massive, boldly imagined work, the rare novel adaptation that's purely, thrillingly cinematic…

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By Andrew Schenker (354) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Nov 2012

The film contains far more passion and a tad more complexity than the dominant and typically more staid model of middlebrow costume drama…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 08 Nov 2012

A fresh version of the classic romantic drama, set on a theater stage, that explores the choices people make for passion…

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By Edward Douglas (1,395) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 25 Oct 2012

Like an overly long perfume commercial, Anna Karenina is as stylishly extravagant as it is dull and pretentious…

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By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 06 Oct 2012

Playwright Stoppard and director Wright make a valiant but unsuccessful effort to modernize the classic, resulting in film that lacks emotional…

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By Susan Granger (2,214) for SSG Syndicate (1,551) on 05 Oct 2012

Intellectual, overwrought and highly stylized, it's a superficial spectacle, providing a feast for the eyes but starvation for the soul…

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By Nick Deigman (49) for Fan The Fire (489) on 29 Sep 2012

We are left with an entertaining but hollow story filled with entertaining but hollow characters…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 11 Sep 2012

Tolstoy's iconic novel may have been filmed several times, but you've never seen a version like this…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 11 Sep 2012

There is no pretense that Wright is giving us a realistic depiction of late-19th-century Russia…

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By Richard Corliss (1,032) for TIME Magazine (1,130) on 09 Sep 2012

Knightley embodies Anna as a girlish woman who has never felt erotic love; once smitten, she is raised to heavenly ecstasy before tumbling…

Review of Anna Karenina (2012)

By Laremy Legel (198) for Film.com (1,892) on 06 Sep 2012

Solid visual moments aren't enough to sustain an audience, and Joe Wright's style isn't enough to salvage gaping wounds in the story…

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