Anna Karenina

The new cinematic "vision" of Tolstoy's Madame Bovarina tale is trying to be fresh and exciting...for about 45 minutes.  The rest of the time, we're left with Keira Knightly, in a perfectly fine Keira Knightly performance, pouting and chin-jutting her way into and out of Russian society in melodramatic fashion.

The film begins in an old run-down theatre.…