The task of adapting Leo Tolstoy’s 864 page, multi-volume novel “Anna Karenina” for the silver screen undoubtedly possesses a high level of difficulty, not just due to the obvious challenge of condensing such a detailed work into a two-hour production, but because one must be very creative in finding a new angle to tell such […]
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Stay tuned later today for more tributes to the life and work of Tony Scott from the rest of the Critic Speak team. It would be difficult to argue that Tony Scott’s “Domino” is his best work by any objective measure–it’s the kind of filmmaking that values messy passion over technical precision–but it’s my personal
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Welcome back to Box Office Beat, the column in which I hopelessly predict the weekend box office tallies. After the two complete and utter failures of last weekend (Tom Cruise’s “Rock of Ages” and Adam Sandler’s “That’s My Boy”), there is no place for this weekend’s releases to go but up. It helps that one
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In their third adaptation of a historically-set novel, director Joe Wright and actress Keira Knightley are tackling Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina.” Given that the duo’s prior collaborations (“Pride & Prejudice” and “Atonement”) are the best things they’ve ever done in their respective careers, it’s hard not to watch this trailer with giddy optimism. “Anna Karenina,”
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