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Elizabeth

1998

Shekhar Kapur

Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes ...

6.5

8,214

Drama When catholic Queen Mary dies the succession goes to Elizabeth, the protestant half-sister Mary was not prepared to execute. The new queen finds herself surrounded by advisors, some supportive but some plotting to restore the catholic line by almost any means. She is also under pressure to marry and produce an heir, but her lover Lord Robert Dudley is not considered suitable. Elizabeth realises she has some decisions to make, the most ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"The texture of the film is enough to recommend it, even apart from the story (...) [It] compresses and rewrites history at its own convenience (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"Blanchett is the queen of this tony entertainment, pure and simple; without her, Kapur’s extravagant history lesson blurs into dark doings among men in tights"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"The costume drama escapes its mothballs in this labyrinthine conspiracy movie (...) The film plays fast and loose with history but creates a sweeping portrait"	POS
United Kingdom	Richard Williams The Guardian	if Shakespeare had come back four centuries later to make a movie about his Queen, this is how it might have turned out."	POS
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"'Elizabeth' works in a number of ways. It's a feminist film (...) It's also a kind of spy thriller and a superior historical drama. But dramatically it most resembles a mafia movie"	POS
United States	David Rooney Variety	"'Elizabeth' is superior historical soap opera that shrewdly sidesteps all the cliches of British costume drama with its bold, often modern approach"	POS
United States	Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"'Elizabeth' reinvents English Tudor history as gangster movie (...) Stylistically, the film is fascinating"	POS

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