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Keira Knightley plays the title character in "Anna Karenina," a limited release that has expanded to more movie theaters. | Focus Features photo
Keira Knightley stars as the title character in "Anna Karenina," which features actors performing in a stylized cinematic ballet without the usual grand sweep of period-drama locations. | Focus Features photo
Aaron Taylor-Johnson (left) stars as Vronsky and Keira Knightley portrays the title role in "Anna Karenina," director Joe Wright’s bold, theatrical new vision of an epic story of love. | Focus Features photo
"Anna Karenina" features Alicia Vikander as Kitty and Domhnall Gleeson as Levin. | Focus Features photo
Jude Law (left) plays Karenin in "Anna Karenina," which features Keira Knightley in the title role. | Focus Features photo
★★1/2 All the world’s a stage, very literally, in Joe Wright’s wildly theatrical adaptation of “Anna Karenina.” If you thought the director’s 5 1/2-minute tracking shot in “Atonement” was show-offy, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Wright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard (“Shakespeare in Love”) have taken …