United States |
Collider
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"[6th Season, Part 2 Review]: The final episodes of The Crown lack the original luster of the earlier seasons, losing focus on the evolution of Queen Elizabeth after the overshadowing of Princess Diana's story." |
NEU
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Rolling Stone
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"[6th Season, Part 2 Review]: ‘The Crown’ Ends With Too Much Prince William and Kate Middleton (...) The more interesting story is lurking on the periphery: Prince Harry" |
NEU
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United Kingdom |
BBC
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"[6th Season, Part 2 Review]: As Netflix's epic Royal Family drama 'The Crown' reaches its dramatic final series, the show, once 'a joy', has failed to right the terrible flaws of the last season (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)" |
NEG
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The Daily Beast
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"[6th Season, Part 2 Review]: Thanks to solid performances and elegant imagery, these episodes amount to a solid half-season of The Crown. But they don't quite satisfy as a final chapter" |
NEU
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The Guardian
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"[6th Season, Part 2 Review]: The royal drama’s final episodes are an improvement on the wild 'ghost Diana' era (...) The series does largely recover from its wobble in the first half of the season (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)" |
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Telegraph
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"[6th Season, Part 2 Review]: a once fine drama abdicates with a miserable whimper (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)" |
NEG
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The Wrap
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"[6th Season, Part 2 Review]: he Diana years started off with sly ambition but the series falters through the ‘90s to a disappointing conclusion" |
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The Hollywood Reporter
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"[6th Season, Part 2 Review]: Final episodes bring 'The Crown' to a smooth but savorless finish" |
NEU
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Variety
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"[6th Season, Part 2 Review]: 'The Crown' has worked to make compelling drama from ingredients that are often its antithesis (...) If it hasn’t always succeeded, 'The Crown' at least concludes as the truest version of itself." |
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Chicago Sun-Times
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"[6th Season Review, Part 2]: Uneven season of Netflix's celebrated series about the British royal family does better with sophisticated storylines about Queen Elizabeth II's funeral and the final days of Princess Margaret (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)" |
NEU
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Decider
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"[6th Season Review, Part 2]: Even though [its] quality is not always consistent, I think the final season deserves to be seen. They've taken some big chances here and while it veers more toward soap opera than high art, it's still some entertaining TV" |
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Telegraph
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"[6th Season, Part 1 Review]: Peter Morgan's final series shows flashes of the drama it used to be, but these first four episodes are intrusive and clumsy (...) Rating: ★ (out of 5)" |
NEG
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United States |
The Wrap
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"[6th Season, Part 1 Review]: what once felt like a rare insight into the regal unknown is now spinning the wheels, waiting out the inevitable (...) the tarnish on the jewels has never been clearer." |
NEU
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United States |
Entertainment Weekly
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"[6th Season, Part 1 Review]: Peter Morgan’s historical drama takes a wistful, careful, and restrained approach to one of the modern-day royal family’s most momentous tragedies." |
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Rolling Stone
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"[6th Season Review, Part 1]: Elizabeth Debicki continues to radiate the proper degree of star power as Diana (...) The issue [Morgan]'s run into with these final seasons is that there is very little the public doesn’t already know" |
NEU
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United Kingdom |
Radio Times
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"[6th Season Part, 1 Review]: Elizabeth Debicki gives a stunning performance in a batch of episodes weighed down by structural issues (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)" |
NEU
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United States |
The Playlist
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"[6th Season Part, 1 Review]: thanks to Debicki’s stirring performance, 'The Crown' still reigns when depicting this sprawling family soap opera" |
POS
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United States |
Collider
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"[6th Season, Part 1 Review]: the series is trying too hard to squeeze in as much relevant history as it can before wrapping things up for good" |
NEU
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United States |
Ready Steady Cut
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"[Season 6 Part 1 Review]: it is detrimentally focused on Princess Diana almost exclusively, abandoning the better aspects for the earlier seasons for a crass, voyeuristic accounting of the Queen of Hearts’ final days (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)" |
NEG
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United Kingdom |
The Guardian
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"[6th Season, Part 1 Review]: so bad it’s basically an out-of-body experience (...) Despite the brilliant cast, it’s a crass, soapy dive into the abyss (...) Rating: ★ (out of 5)" |
NEG
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Variety
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"[6th Season, Part 1 Review]: 'The Crown' reclaims its glittering throne (...) Highly focused, the season moves swiftly through the summer days of 1997 with a pace that forces viewers, despite knowing what's coming, to hold their breath" |
POS
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AV Club
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"[6th Season, Part 1 Review]: [It] still boasts incredible performances and production value, but unfortunately has nothing new to say" |
NEU
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United Kingdom |
BBC
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"[6th Season, Part 1 Review]: As Netflix's epic 'The Crown' reaches its dramatic final series, the show, once 'a joy', has failed to right the terrible flaws of the last season (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)" |
NEG
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United States |
Vanity Fair
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"[6th Season Review, Part 1]: A perhaps soapy recounting of events, overly forgiving and flattering of some, too condemning of others. But that tendency toward reverent melodrama is what makes 'The Crown' such a semiguilty pleasure" |
NEU
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London Evening Standard
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"[6th Season Review, Part 1]: This season is even more plagued than the rest by us knowing what happens. The interest is in how we get there. And boy, Peter Morgan fills the gaps (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)" |
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Decider
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"[6th Season Review, Part 1]: While I'm able to watch and enjoy it for Debicki's performance, I feel like it's also a good thing that the show is ending now, the time has come" |
NEU
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United States |
Paste Magazine
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"[6th Season Review, Part 1]: While the first half of the season may make an excellent Diana miniseries, it's not entirely clear that it works as a concluding installment of 'The Crown'" |
NEU
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United States |
IndieWire
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"[6th Season Review, Part 1]: Such overreaching, such redundancy, such ghastly plotting overwhelms the clean, handsome staging and costumed elegance 'The Crown' has leaned on for years" |
NEG
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United States |
Boston Globe
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"[6th Season Review, Part 1]: Elizabeth Debicki channels Princess Diana in her last weeks with a devastating precision... It's one of the most evocative performances I've seen on TV" |
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Canada |
The Globe and Mail
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"[6th Season Review, Part 1]: 'The Crown' should have stuck the landing with the previously planned fifth and final season, rather than using an international moment of pain for another binge watch" |
NEG
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rogerebert.com
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"[6th Season Review, Part 1]: [It] is more assured than the season prior, if only by fits and starts" |
NEU
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United States |
TV Guide
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"[5th Season Review]: it remains as engrossing as ever. Again — it knows what it's doing" |
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IGN
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"[5th Season Review]: It sympathetically explores broken hearts, duty versus desire, and the pursuit for love above all else with the introspection and elegance fans expect from showrunner Peter Morgan" |
POS
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United States |
Paste Magazine
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"[5th Season Review]: This is the most interesting season of The Crown yet, even pensive in its attitude and approach (...) Debicki is a revelation as Diana" |
POS
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United States |
The Playlist
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"[5th Season Review]: Debicki is incredible in this role (and the similarities to the real Diana are eerie), (...) the fifth season maintains the melodramatic antics that keep us wanting more." |
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United States |
Polygon
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"[5th Season Review]: Bumping up against the present day, the show is no longer a distant — if imperfect — fairy tale (...) 'The Crown', like the monarchy it portrays, can’t seem to keep up" |
NEU
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Deadline
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"[5th Season Review]: Minus Helen Mirren and Michael Sheen, it’s a season that already feels like too far in the past and too far in the future to be worth going the distance for anymore" |
NEG
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CNN
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"[5th Season Review]: It’s still pretty good. Yet given the highs that the younger versions of these characters delivered, to borrow from the Queen, watching the current season feels more like a preference than a requirement" |
NEU
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United States |
Slant
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"[5th Season Review]: An unsteady portrait of a flailing monarchy (...) The show’s fifth installment is both more simplistic and less coherent than past seasons (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)" |
NEG
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United States |
Entertainment Weekly
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"[5th Season Review]: A new cast anchors an unstable season (...) Debicki is excellent as Diana; she captures the Princess' crippling vulnerability but also her cheeky charm" |
POS
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United States |
Decider
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"[5th Season Review]: The Crown Season 5 is watchable, for sure. But it wobbles where past seasons dazzled." |
NEU
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United States |
Variety
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"[5th Season Review]: even after having been handed the gift of a memorable scandal with two hugely charismatic and flawed participants as grist, 'The Crown' finds it has nothing to say." |
NEG
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United States |
The Hollywood Reporter
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"[5th Season Review]:The Crown distinguishes itself by doing what it’s always done best: combining clear-eyed empathy, shrewd commentary and a refreshing intellectual curiosity" |
POS
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United States |
Vanity Fair
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"[5th Season Review]: a compelling prelude to tragedy (...) It’s almost cruel how effective Debicki is in the series, when we know what all her fascinating portraiture is heading toward" |
POS
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United States |
The Wrap
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"[5th Season Review]: Elizabeth Debicki stuns as Diana takes center stage (...) The penultimate season of the Netflix series adeptly tackles Diana and Charles’ divorce and the Queen’s reputation woes" |
POS
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United Kingdom |
The Guardian
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"[5th Season Review]: Its cast is cartoonish, the plot is packed with dull speeches and multiple episodes could have been binned entirely. The royal drama has never been less relevant (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)" |
NEG
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United States |
Chicago Sun-Times
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"[5th Season Review]: The show remains a royal treat (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)" |
POS
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United States |
SlashFilm
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"[5th Season Review]: It is a soapy, frothy, addictive show. It goes to dark places, but there's an air of disconnect to it all that makes it all go down easy (...) Gorgeous production design and strong performances" |
POS
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United Kingdom |
The Times
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"[5th Season Review]: I'm afraid the first three episodes are ditchwater dull. But here's the good news. It gets better. Much better (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)" |
NEU
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United Kingdom |
London Evening Standard
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"[5th Season Review]: Elizabeth Debicki has the trickiest call as Diana, but she gets pretty close. She conveys something of her grace, waywardness and humour (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)" |
POS
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United States |
Rolling Stone
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"[5th Season Review]: [Morgan's] conception of each of his fictionalized subjects remains as strong as ever" |
POS
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United Kingdom |
BBC
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"[5th Season Review]: This series, when it hits its stride in the second half at least, is compelling as soap opera (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)" |
NEU
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United States |
IndieWire
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"[5th Season Review]: Season 5 is woefully deficient in its focus, which in turn puts too great a burden on the actors and production" |
NEG
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Telegraph
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"[5th Season Review]: As the storylines catch up with the present, the show is edging towards trashy telenovela (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)" |
NEG
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United States |
Collider
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"[5th Season Review]: At this particular turning point, and especially looking ahead to what the sixth and final season is likely primed to address, it remains to be seen whether 'The Crown' will wrap things up on a high note" |
NEU
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United Kingdom |
Radio Times
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"[5th Season Review]: [This] royal drama remains as addictive as ever (...) If season 6 once again measures up to this standard, then the king and queen of historical dramas will be bowing out having had quite the reign (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)" |
POS
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United States |
ABC News
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"[5th Season Review]: An ambitious and addictive blast of delicious royal intrigue. The cast is sheer perfection" |
POS
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United States |
USA Today
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"[4th Season Review]: Season 4 largely succeeds because of the way Diana (Emma Corrin) and Thatcher (Gillian Anderson) are integrated into the cast and stories (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)" |
POS
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United States |
IGN
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"[4th Season Review]: [It] continues to prove why it's one of the best shows on television in Season 4, with amazing performances from its ensemble of characters and superb writing from showrunner Peter Morgan and his team" |
POS
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United States |
Entertainment Weekly
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"[4th Season Review]: It’s a season of next-level performances (...) This is Colman and company’s final season (...) but at least their sendoff is a sovereign success" |
POS
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United Kingdom |
Radio Times
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"[4th Season Review]: The Charles and Diana story is told brilliantly. Emma Corrin shines as Princess Diana (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)" |
POS
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United States |
IndieWire
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"[4th Season Review]: In a case of art imitating life, the addition of Princess Diana to the Netflix series revitalizes the Royal Family." |
POS
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United Kingdom |
Empire
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"[4th Season Review]: In almost every respect — production design, cinematography, score, direction — this is an impeccable series (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)" |
POS
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United States |
Variety
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"[4th Season Review]: For four seasons now, Morgan has written a remarkably addictive, stealthily silly royal soap opera (...) [This season] may be its most successful yet" |
POS
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United States |
Collider
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"[4th Season Review]: A show that has always been able to provide a sense of real stakes now starts to play as melodramatic. Its focus has become scattered, and there’s no longer a strong center" |
NEG
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United Kingdom |
Mirror
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"[4th Season Review]: [It] is the best season yet of the Netflix royal drama and boasts added momentum and marvellous performances (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)" |
POS
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United States |
Vulture
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"[3rd Season Review]: It is still gorgeously photographed, still committed to shining a new light on royal history, and still immensely satisfying to watch. It is also still extremely well-acted" |
POS
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United States |
Variety
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"[3rd Season Review]: [With its] steady, nuanced performances, 'The Crown' (...) becomes as compelling a portrait of how power warps individuals" |
POS
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United Kingdom |
The Guardian
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"[3rd Season Review]: [Every episode] is a masterpiece of a kind (...) The amount of cake 'The Crown' successfully has and eats deserves an award all of its own (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)" |
POS
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United States |
Time
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"[3rd Season Review]: Olivia Colman makes a spectacular Queen Elizabeth (...) Sadly the story itself is getting old" |
NEU
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United Kingdom |
Telegraph
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"[3rd Season Review]: 'The Crown' remains, by far, the best soap opera on television (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)" |
POS
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United Kingdom |
The Independent
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"[3rd Season Review]: Olivia Colman dazzles, but the jewel in Netflix’s tiara has lost its shine (...) It may be one of the most beautiful shows on television, but the drama’s return is a bit colourless (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)" |
NEU
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United States |
IndieWire
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"[3rd Season Review]: What is on the screen in 'The Crown' is a gorgeous display of some of the age’s best actors performing at the peak of their craft" |
POS
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United States |
IndieWire
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"[2nd Season Review]: [It] turns too dreary and cold (...) Scripts are well-crafted. Images are opulent in texture and scenery. Acting remains a top attribute" |
NEU
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United Kingdom |
Telegraph
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"[2nd Season Review]: Kirby’s performance (...) manages to capture Margaret’s many complex shades (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)" |
POS
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United Kingdom |
The Independent
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"[2nd Season Review]: 'The Crown' makes for a meandering and unfocused approach to the era that seems to actively ignore its most fascinating asset." |
NEG
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United States |
Entertainment Weekly
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"[2nd Season Review]: Peter Morgan’s creation works so well as a whole because it’s consistently well written and lushly filmed (...) but its greatest strength once again is in the casting." |
POS
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United Kingdom |
Radio Times
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"[2nd Season Review]: Netflix’s majestic second series digs deep into the royal marriage (...) Claire Foy and Matt Smith rule – and 'The Crown' continues its supremacy." |
POS
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United States |
SFGATE
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"Morgan's writing is masterful, displaying a consistently keen use of depth, nuance and sense of detail to weave this story. But perhaps even more laudable is his ability to allow the audience to come to their own understanding of the characters." |
POS
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United States |
The Hollywood Reporter
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"'The Crown' is costume drama done right because (...) Morgan's fascination has always been process and the clash between individuals and institutions." |
POS
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United States |
Variety
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"In a drama that is prone to repetitive tangents, disconnected subplots and the liberal use of filler, Foy unites the disparate parts of 'The Crown' and gives it a taut center." |
POS
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United States |
Los Angeles Times
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"As television it's excellent--beautifully mounted, movingly played and only mildly melodramatic." |
POS
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United States |
Vanity Fair
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"The show is simply an engaging enough dynastic family drama, told on an extravagant scale. It really is gorgeous to look at, and it features many fine performances." |
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