Keira Knightley Director: Joe Wright Stars: Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Johnson, Kelly Macdonald Genre(s): Drama; Romance Release Date: September 7, 2012 Rotten Tomatoes Score: 62% Keira Knightley certainly has changed since her Oscar-nominated role in Pride and Prejudice , and in the past eight years she has starred in terrible movies, terrific movies, and everything in-between. She is still undeniably gorgeous and talented, yet perhaps her poised British grandeur has lost its effect. It is, therefore, not surprising that she was given the title role in Anna Karenina , her latest film with frequent collaborator, director Joe Weight; she has a knack for playing historical -- both true and fictionalized -- women from years past. As it turns out, that knack does nothing to elevate Wright's disappointing version of Tolstoy's classic romance novel. Anna Karenina takes place during the 19th century, and Knightley plays a young mother who is ...
It's time for this petite aspie movie snob to get critical. (Let's face it: it's always time for that).