SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

murat-kaya-108-778284 The cinema theater scene moved with this film. The film is definitely a masterpiece. The splendor of the stage transitions, the perfection of the player, the arrangement of the script with the book, the mimics gestures, the clothes, the scene were all great. But I must say here that everyone can not taste the same taste. This movie was a totally different thing. The picture of a painter, the music of your music was wonderful. I love the film, and once again I admire Keira's acting. You have to watch. Good looking.

gunes bayir With the help of theatrical scenes, events speed up but yet they didn't manage to cover up. Many events, motivations, ideas are missing. No scent of Tolstoy's criterion about the Russian society. A sub-secondary representation of Levin, who is normally a dominant character, and Tolstoy's reflection of himself in the book. Acting is good but doesn't save the movie.Read the book.

sol- Leo Tolstoy's story of a Russian woman torn between a passionate extramarital lover and her comfortable life in a loveless marriage is interestingly turned into a filmed stage play here. If an odd artistic decision, it gives a nice, dreamlike quality to the material as the camera glides, floats and creeps about as the actors walk around stage to change set and location. Dario Marianelli's lively music score also often enlivens the film beyond the stage-bound setting and as workmen move up and down in synchrony, the film almost has the choreography of a big budget musical. No amount of audiovisual pizazz can, however, disguise how melodramatic the tale is in director Joe Wright's hands. The casting of Keira Knightley does not help either as she does little to render her character sympathetic and while Jude Law's subdued approach to playing her husband initially seems like a stroke of genius, his eliciting of few emotions after everything Knightley puts him through never quite feels right. In short, Anna feels less a victim of a repressive society and more of a victim of her own instability and an uncaring husband. As mentioned, the film looks and sounds magnificent enough that the potency of the story is not quite so important, but it is hard not to wonder what may have been here with more attention to characters/performance and less attention to audiovisual splendour.

Eric Stevenson I remember first hearing a magazine say the original "Anna Karenina" book was voted the greatest novel of all time! I didn't even think it was the best one made by Leo Tolstoy! I was very eager to see this movie version if only because I wanted to know the story of what was considered to be the greatest novel of all time. I guess I should have read the book first. I feel bad for not being familiar with such a beloved story. The story is pretty basic with a woman named Anna Karenina having an affair and even an illegitimate son. Yeah, that's pretty much the whole plot.I felt the length of this movie was quite nice. I was afraid it would go on forever seeing as how it was made by the same guy who wrote "War And Peace". I do wish that I could compare the original novel because I don't know how faithfully it adapted the story. For an unbiased opinion, I found this to be a good movie. The best thing about it is probably how great the sets are. Everything is just so wonderfully bright and colorful here. This really does give you the feeling of Russia in the 1800's. It's great as a period piece, albeit an unintentional one. ***