Ironically, none of these recent turns seems to have affected me as much as Jude Law playing a shifty, Force-sensitive space pirate in the coming-of-age children’s yarn, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew.

Jude Law was already a major star with two Oscar nominations under his belt when he played Count Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin in Joe Wright's 2012 film "Anna Karenina." Alicia Vikander ...