The Aftermath

Keira Knightley and Alexander Skarsgård are stuck inside of Hamburg with the Casablanca blues

"...Directed by: James Kent. Starring: Keira Knightley, Jason Clarke, Alexander Skarsgård, Flora Thiemann, Martin Compston..."

March 29, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Dangerous Method

David Cronenberg forgoes his customary viscera for the more unknowable id as Drs. Jung and Freud hash out the origins of our unconscious impulses.

"...Directed by: David Cronenberg. Starring: Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel and Sarah..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Official Secrets

True story of a whistleblower who saw the lies behind the Iraq War

"...Directed by: Gavin Hood. Starring: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Adam Bakri, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode,..."

Sept. 6, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Begin Again

Agreeably phony movie focuses on a pair of unlikely partners drawn together by the promise of making music.

"...Directed by: John Carney. Starring: Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, Hailee Steinfeld, Adam Levine, James Corden,..."

July 4, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

Never Let Me Go

The children in this story are born into a system that values them for their disposable body parts, not their discrete personalities.

"...Directed by: Mark Romanek. Starring: Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, Izzy Meikle-Small, Charlie Rowe, Ella Purnell,..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Pride & Prejudice

This fresh adaptation of Jane Austen’s masterpiece starring Keira Knightley presents a witty and lovesick skirmish of the sexes that exceeds all expectations.

"...Directed by: Joe Wright. Starring: Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland, Rosamund Pike,..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Domino

Attention-deficit filmmaking reaches a new pinnacle in Tony Scott's hyperstylized portrait of a bounty hunter as an iconic bad girl.

"...Directed by: Tony Scott. Starring: Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez, Rizwan Abbasi, Delroy Lindo,..."

Oct. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Jacket

This mix of amnesia, time travel, and Adrien Brody adds up to a fairly forgettable experience.

"...Directed by: John Maybury. Starring: Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Daniel Craig, Kelly..."

March 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Duchess

Keira Knightley stars as the titular Duchess, a legendary wit and arbiter of taste, but the film is a curiously inert: a whole lot of pomp and incircumstance.

"...Directed by: Saul Dibb. Starring: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling, Dominic Cooper, Hayley Atwell..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Colette

Famous French author underserved by prosaic biopic

"...Directed by: Wash Westmoreland. Starring: Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Denise Gough, Fiona Shaw, Aiysha Hart..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Collateral Beauty

Will Smith mopes around in this preposterous drama

"...Directed by: David Frankel. Starring: Will Smith, Edward Norton, Keira Knightley, Michael Peña, Naomie Harris, Jacob Latimore, Kate Winslet,..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Laggies

Keira Knightley stars with Chloë Grace Moretz in Lynn Shelton's likable but aimless film about arrested adolescence.

"...Directed by: Lynn Shelton. Starring: Keira Knightley, Chloë Grace Moretz, Sam Rockwell, Mark Webber, Ellie..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Anna Karenina

Joe Wright's bold but empty imagining of Tolstoy's classic is set mostly within the walls of a theatre.

"...Directed by: Joe Wright. Starring: Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Domhnall Gleeson, Matthew Macfadyen,..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

Steve Carell and Keira Knightley find love and companionship in the face of the apocalypse.

"...Directed by: Lorene Scarfaria. Starring: Steve Carell, Keira Knightley, Adam Brody, Derek Luke, Martin Sheen, Melanie Lynskey,..."

June 22, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Atonement

Joe Wright has fashioned an epic piece of moviemaking from Ian McEwan’s novel: Starring Keira Knightley, the film is consumed with the nature of storytelling and the moral responsibility of the storyteller.

"...Directed by: Joe Wright. Starring: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Saoirse Ronan, Romola Garai, Vanessa Redgrave,..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

Go see the actual ballet instead

"...by: Lasse Hallström and Joe Johnston. Starring: Mackenzie Foy, Keira Knightley, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, Richard E. Grant and..."

Nov. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Imitation Game

The heartbreaking life of Alan Turing, the engineer who changed World War II

"...Directed by: Morten Tyldum. Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear, Charles Dance, Mark Strong,..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Bend It Like Beckham

"...Directed by: Gurinder Chadha. Starring: Parminder K. Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Anupam Kher, Archie Punjabi, Shaheen Khan..."

April 4, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

After a Fashion

Tom Ford is creepy and Stephen travels to Houston for fabric

"...Ford practically drooling in the ear of a nude Keira Knightley, 20, with a nude, corpse-white Scarlett Johansson, 21,..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Silent Night

English nightmare comedy is as much Noël Coward as George A. Romero

"...Directed by: Camille Griffin. Starring: Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Roman Griffin Davis, Lucy Punch, Trudie..."

Dec. 3, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Everest

Ace ensemble cast enacts the real-life story of a doomed climbing expedition

"...Hawkes, Emily Watson, Sam Worthington, Michael Kelly, Thomas Wright, Keira Knightley, Robin Wright and Martin Henderson...."

Sept. 18, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

In something of a prequel, this is Jack Ryan's origin story – before Tom Clancy got his hooks in him.

"...Directed by: Kenneth Branagh. Starring: Chris Pine, Kevin Costner, Keira Knightley and Kenneth Branagh...."

Jan. 24, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

The pirate genre will always be buoyed aloft on the swells of outrageous action, ridiculous couture, and the derringest of do – and this sequel is no different.

"...Directed by: Gore Verbinski. Starring: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Jack Davenport and Geoffrey Rush. For all the..."

July 14, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Love Actually

This merry skein of loves lost and found in holiday-season London is written and directed by the Four Weddings and a Funeral scribe.

"...Thompson, Alan Rickman, Bill Nighy, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Keira Knightley, Martine McCutcheon, Billy Bob Thornton, Joanna Page, Rowan..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

"...Starring: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, Jonathan Pryce, Keira Knightley and Jack Davenport...."

July 11, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, June 17-23

"...to change as much as possible," says Aries actor Keira Knightley. What?! Is she serious? Her number one aspiration..."

June 17, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

Fantastic Fest Nabs Latest Derrickson-Cargill-Hawke Horror Collab The Black Phone

Keira Knightley dark comedy Silent Night to close fest

"...Night, first-time director Camille Griffin’s holiday-themed black comedy starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Goode; UK horror A Banquet, from..."

Sept. 9, 2021 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Secrets and Lies: The Truth of Official Secrets

Martin Bright on the Iraq War, and being played by Matt Smith

"...comes to theaters as political drama Official Secrets, with Keira Knightley as Gun, and Matt Smith as Bright. "I..."

Sept. 5, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Steven Spielberg, Cher, Octavia Spen­cer, Tim Tebow, Henry Wink­ler, Keira Knightley, Anderson Cooper, and Jamie Oliver all have in..."

Feb. 8, 2019 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

The Good Eye: Girl, Illustrated

The fine lines between the lines

"...Hollywood. Compared to having to scrub my brain of Keira Knightley's awful Lizzie in the 2005 Pride and Prejudice,..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Column by Amy Gentry

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