The ultimate failure of “Far From the Madding Crowd,” the latest screen adaptation of the Thomas Hardy novel, resides mainly in an area almost too delicate to talk about. But as there’s no gain in ...

Being able to choose a mate in that era, whether appropriate or not, was the draw for Mulligan. “When I read it, that’s what I was most excited about that it was a story that started with a woman who ...

The novel it's based on may be a century-and-a-half old, and it opens with a mad-sheepdog accident, of all the crazy, rural old-fashioned things, but this new cinematic adaptation of Thomas Hardy's ...