**1/2 Anna Karenina Joe Wright’s adaptation of the Tolstoy classic staggers under the weight of a dazzling, hermetically sealed visual style that fails to connect with our emotions; the entire ...

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"Anna Karenina" is a failure emotionally and dramatically, but not in the usual way of a director's trying to achieve something and falling short. On the contrary, Wright made the movie he wanted ...

The re-invented Anna Karenina is an intoxicating spectacle that breathes new life into the classic Tolstoy novel, incorporating the notion that all life's a stage -- at least for imperial Russian ...