Keira Knightley - Page 7 (2024)

Keira Knightley plays a dogged journalist in this colorless true-crime drama streaming on Hulu.

By Jeannette Catsoulis

This animated biopic about the German Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon takes faithful inspiration from her life. What if it had taken more energy from her art?

By Lisa Kennedy

In this feature from Camille Griffin, a group of friends facing global disaster have one last Christmas dinner.

By Concepción de León

This British comedy about a feminist protest against the 1970 Miss World contest stars Keira Knightley and Gugu Mbatha-Raw.

By Manohla Dargis

Keira Knightley plays a British intelligence officer turned whistle-blower who tried to stop the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

By Manohla Dargis

Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgard and Jason Clarke star in this stagy drama directed by James Kent based on Rhidian Brook’s 2013 novel.

By Jeannette Catsoulis

The once-divided nature of Berlin isn’t given much consideration in this film, part of the Cities of Love series.

By Glenn Kenny

In “Widows,” “House of Cards” and other productions this year, women are not willing to play by the rules imposed by men. The result is exhilarating drama.

By Candice Frederick

Don’t expect this latest take on the holiday classic to become a yearly tradition.

By Aisha Harris

Keira Knightley stars in the attractive biographical movie “Colette,” which takes a light, enjoyably fizzy approach to its subject.

By Manohla Dargis

The Carpetbagger

In this new period drama, the clothes have their own character arc. “The costumes really reflect what’s happening inside Colette,” says the director.

By Kyle Buchanan

the new season

We asked actresses, directors and writers with this fall’s films to tell us about the forerunners they admire. Tilda Swinton, Rashida Jones, Michelle Rodriguez and others explain in their own words.

By Kathryn Shattuck

Scene City

Lincoln Center gives an award to the creative directors of Valentino at a star-studded event.

By Jacob Bernstein

Destiny never releases its grim stranglehold on the characters in this play, based on Émile Zola’s novel, which represents Ms. Knightley’s Broadway debut.

By Ben Brantley

TimesVideo

Keira Knightley and Matt Ryan in a scene from Helen Edmundson’s new adaptation of Émile Zola’s novel, on Broadway at Studio 54.

By Roundabout Theater Company

The actress known for pirate and period movies will star in “Thérèse Raquin” just as she is tackling her role as a new mother.

By Jesse McKinley

ArtsBeat

Police take man to a hospital for a mental evaluation after he interrupts a performance of “Thérèse Raquin” on Broadway by shouting at the actress Keira Knightley.

By Michael Paulson

Film Review

Baltasar Kormakur’s film is a breathless, large-scale 3-D action spectacle about an ill-starred attempt to scale the planet’s highest peak.

By A.O. Scott

T Magazine

From Amal Clooney’s opera gloves to Felicity Jones’s demure Dior, the stars turned it out at last night’s event.

By Malina Joseph Gilchrist

Carpetbagger

The costume designer explains that the process involved the star acting out scenes as he tried on clothes.

By Rachel Lee Harris

T Magazine

Plus, Taylor Swift’s BFFs, the rise of beard baubles and more from the week in style.

By Hilary Moss

TimesVideo

Benedict Cumberbatch, left, and Eddie Redmayne both star in biopics about ingenious British men.

Samantha Stark

Carpetbagger

From unsolicited advice for Keira Knightley to something of a set-to with Allen Leech (a.k.a. Branson on “Downton Abbey”).

By Cara Buckley

Movie Review

In “The Imitation Game” Benedict Cumberbatch plays Alan Turing, whose code-breaking work helped win World War II yet whose hom*osexuality led him to face indecency charges in Britain.

By A.O. Scott

Scene City

Ms. Knightley and Mr. Cumberbatch were among the stars celebrating the New York premiere of “The Imitation Game.”

By John Koblin

Keira Knightley, Benedict Cumberbatch and other actors host the New York premiere and after party.

Movie Review

Keira Knightley tries to dodge adult life in “Laggies,” Lynn Shelton’s hybrid of coming-of-age story and romantic comedy.

By A.O. Scott

ArtsBeat

The Roundabout Theater Company will present a new adaptation of the Émile Zola novel “Thérèse Raquin,” starring Keira Knightley, on Broadway next fall.

By Allan Kozinn

T Magazine

The actress picked a just-shown printed dress for a London photo call.

By Renata Mosci

ArtsBeat

The actress discusses her role in the comedy “Laggies,” directed by Lynn Shelton.

By Mekado Murphy

TimesVideo

The actress discusses her film “Laggies,” directed by Lynn Shelton.

Mekado Murphy

Movie Review

“Begin Again,” starring Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo and Adam Levine, is the director John Carney’s follow-up to “Once.”

By A.O. Scott

ArtsBeat

John Carney discusses a sequence from the film featuring Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo.

By Mekado Murphy

Summer Movies

In John Carney’s new film, “Begin Again,” he has tried to shoot in parts of New York that are recognizable to residents, not tourists.

By Logan Hill

Carpetbagger

By the fifth day of the 10-day Sundance Film Festival, with distributors having sampled about 50 films, movies have been selling on the cheap.

By Brooks Barnes

Movie Review

Paramount reboots an action franchise, casting Chris Pine in a role previously played by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck.

By Manohla Dargis

With four of the five spots for the best-actress Oscar category considered already sewn up, veteran performers, and a few newcomers, are working the circuit to secure the one in play.

By Melena Ryzik

A video gallery of dreams and transformations, featuring 13 actresses whose performances defined the year in film.

TimesVideo

A dreamy performance by Keira Knightley, one of the 13 actresses featured in this year's Hollywood Issue.

Tierney Gearon

T Magazine

Alek Wek, Keira Knightley and Miranda Kerr take on the happy hue for winter.

By Edward Barsamian

TimesVideo

The New York Times critics on “Anna Karenina,” “Silver Linings Playbook” and “Twilight.”

Gabe Johnson

TimesVideo

Joe Wright, the director of "Anna Karenina," narrates a scene from the film.

Mekado Murphy

Movie Review

The director Joe Wright and the screenwriter Tom Stoppard create a playful, passionate rendering of Leo Tolstoy’s novel “Anna Karenina.”

By A.O. Scott

T Magazine

The star of “Anna Karenina” is cool and collected in a mint green Erdem dress.

By Edward Barsamian

Movies have long loved the tale of Leo Tolstoy’s impassioned heroine Anna Karenina, but the faithfulness of adaptations have greatly varied.

By Terrence Rafferty

Movie Review

“Stars in Shorts” is a collection of seven films, none longer than 25 minutes and starring notables like Judi Dench and Keira Knightley.

By Stephen Holden

Movie Review

“Seeking a Friend for the End of the World” is Lorene Scafaria’s sweet, whimsical and seriously misguided romp through end times.

By A.O. Scott

Apocalyptic films are the flavor of the month, and the most recent ones are extra-dark and intimate, like “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World.”

By Terrence Rafferty

Carpetbagger

Pundits are already making lists of what might be nominated next year: think “Great Gatsby,” “The Hobbit,” “Les Miz” and many more.

By Melena Ryzik

T Magazine

The actress is quietly elegant in a crimson keyhole dress by Burberry.

By Edward Barsamian

Carpetbagger

Viggo Mortensen says he’s happy to be nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance in “A Dangerous Method” but laments that David Cronenberg, his director, was overlooked.

By Melena Ryzik

The Times’s co-chief film critics discuss David Cronenberg’s “Dangerous Method” and Clint Eastwood’s “J. Edgar,” biopics examining the consequences of repression.

By A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis

“A Dangerous Method,” directed by David Cronenberg, is the latest film from Hollywood about mental illness. The patient, as usual in such films, is female.

By Terrence Rafferty

Movie Review | 'A Dangerous Method'

David Cronenberg’s “Dangerous Method” traces the shifting relationships among Carl Jung; his mentor, Sigmund Freud; and Jung’s patient, Sabina Spielrein.

By A.O. Scott

Movie Review | 'London Boulevard'

In William Monahan’s directorial debut, Colin Farrell plays a bodyguard (to a movie star played by Keira Knightley) whose underworld connections want him back.

By Stephen Holden

ArtsBeat

David Cronenberg, the director of “A Dangerous Method,” discusses his film about Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.

By Mekado Murphy

To reboot its sagging “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, Disney chose Rob Marshall to direct the fourth installment, which will screen at Cannes.

By Brooks Barnes

A marriage hovers on the brink of temptation in “Last Night.”

By Manohla Dargis

Keira Knightley, Elisabeth Moss and Rebecca Hall have taken to the London stage and audiences are lining up.

By Ben Brantley

Movie Review | 'Never Let Me Go'

The limits of beauty or, more rightly, the uses of visual beauty are revealed in the adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s highly regarded dystopian novel “Never Let Me Go.”

By Manohla Dargis

Mark Romanek, the director of “Never Let Me Go,” discusses a scene from the film.

The New Season Film

The director Mark Romanek and the screenwriter Alex Garland build a retro-futurist dystopia in their adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel “Never Let Me Go.”

By Charles McGrath

With London all a-shiver from a crippling cold snap, it only made sense to visit two of the hottest women in town: Keira Knightley in “The Misanthrope” and Tamzin Outhwaite in “Sweet Charity.”

By Ben Brantley

Movie Review | 'The duch*ess'

“The duch*ess” is an overstuffed, intellectually underbaked portrait of a poor little rich girl.

By Manohla Dargis

“The duch*ess” is a period film that underscores the eerie parallels in two royal lives.

By Barbara Kantrowitz

The Oscars

A veteran performer at the age of 22, Keira Knightley has acquired the air, and the résumé, of a much older actress.

By Charles McGrath

The film version of “Atonement,” much like the novel on which it is based, is about the nature of storytelling.

By Charles McGrath

She turned her own look into a tabloid-headline-grabbing, million-dollar-sales-generating, Hollywood-star-making style machine. What will she fashion next?

By Lynn Hirschberg

How did Jane Austen become the chick-lit, chick-flick queen for today? Because she is almost spookily contemporary.

By Caryn James

“Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” set new industry benchmarks with its aggressive global release on Memorial Day weekend.

By Sharon Waxman