Style over substance is a complaint often lodged against big-budget action movies and slick comic book adaptations. But toward Oscar bait based on famous literature? Not as common. Yet, here we are ...

Why some books are subjected to repeated versions is a mystery. Anna Karenina is one of those books. Written by Leo Tolstoy as a serial installment from 1873 to 1877 in The Russian Messenger, some ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Film adaptations of "Anna Karenina" have featured the likes of Greta Garbo and Vivien Leigh, but Keira Knightley isn't fazed about measuring up to such silver screen luminaries ...

You don't just casually decide to adapt "Anna Karenina" for the big screen. Leo Tolstoy's iconic work isn't your run-of-the-mill entertainment. It's an intricate study of the human heart that a poll ...

As a besotted 19th-century Russian idealist in Joe Wright’s highly theatrical “Anna Karenina,” Domhnall Gleeson makes the ache of lost love so physically palpable that if you reached out and touched ...

Literary historical costume dramas: They’re all over theaters, especially during the awards-baiting fall and winter months. They fill their casts with great actors, place them in meticulously ...

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. Wright has chosen to eschew naturalism (there have ...