Review of Anna Karenina

Sometimes it's hilarious, mostly Oblonsky and the rest of the superb casting, and then the rest of it is awkward, Vronsky is painfully miscast. Keira Knightley is brilliant but her character arc yo-yos between every mad shrew character cliche. Some dialogue, and some shots are spellbinding, but on the whole, while the scenes and translations of Russian literature to the who's who of British actors and their dry wit, the pacing and the plot is both boring and rushed. It's got its moments but it's inconsistent and scattershot and distracting.