Anna Karenina | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

One has to applaud Joe Wright's interpretation of 'Anna Karenina' which is a play on the Shakespeare adage, "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players"

All of this calculated design, which plays like an astutely choreographed musical without any discernible music, only mutes our feelings for the roiling, raging passionate affair that's supposed to be transpiring before our eyes.

A radiant Keira Knightley brings more depth to Tolstoy's heroine than you would ever expect. An ingenious adaptation, scripted by Tom Stoppard, frames lush visuals with a trompe l'oeil theatrical setting...

Its nearly flawless craft is done at the expense of the story rather than in service of it, and that I think is its fatal mistake.

Anna Karenina drags in the middle and rushes to its ugly end but the sets, the choreography, the glorious costumes and the secondary characters are pieces of a superior film.