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The fabulous Elizabeth reinvents English Tudor history as gangster movie.
Read the full reviewSuperior historical soap opera that shrewdly sidesteps all the cliches of British costume drama with its bold, often modern approach.
Read the full reviewWhere Elizabeth really triumphs over its dusty source material is in transforming all this boring history into a real, rip-roaring adventure tale.
Read the full reviewThe texture of the film is enough to recommend it, even apart from the story.
Read the full reviewThis is a sensual, psychologically modern costume drama influenced by both "The Godfather" and gals' guides to empowerment.
Read the full reviewThis Elizabeth is presented as a glamorously stressed-out modern woman who must cope with a super-intense case of having it all.
Read the full reviewPeriod movies inevitably reflect more about the period in which they're made than the period of their subject, and rarely has that been more evident -- or more distracting -- than it is with Elizabeth.
Read the full reviewElizabeth works in a number of ways. It's a feminist film. It's also a kind of spy thriller and a superior historical drama.
Read the full reviewIt's a rousing adventure that keeps the audience involved for the entirety of the two hour running time while opening a window into the culture that gave birth to Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, Francis Bacon, and William Shakespeare.
Read the full reviewThe film belongs to Blanchett -- this hellcat Virgin Queen is something to see.
Read the full reviewBut much of it, like its subject, is so cryptic, distractingly stylish, and impenetrably posed that it's rough going most of the way.
Read the full reviewA notably undynamic treatment of Protestant Elizabeth I's ascension to the British throne.
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The Metascore® designation for this movie is 75
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Elizabeth Sank
"The modern styling of this film left history tangled in knots without any continuity....So many things were poorly developed that any non historian would have difficulty with the thread of history.....In an attempt to be a feminist film, Kapur lost the essence of good writing and wasted talent galore.....The film was an utter bore, lavish,but poorly developed....The worst character, totally miscast was Mary Tudor.....Kapur should go back to bombay and direct films for the masses who know nothing....This film was a big disappointment"
brilliant
"another masterpiece by shekhar kapur. oscars for best film"
So....SO
"3:10 to Yuma, it should have been a 4 12 to Disappointment. 4:12 was the arrest code for over acting (Stan Freberg's record 'Dragonnet') I just couldn't believe that a man so evil and rotten could change his life after killing 15 to 20 men before my eyes, and does it in ten-second! After the killings he climbs into a cage that is set up in a railcar that transports prisneros to Yuma, the train is pulling out of the station, the whistle is blowing and he is so remorseful for what he has done. He hands over his gun to the conductor as he climbs into the cage and as the train pulls away from the station...he gives a low whistle and his horse that is a 100 feet away comes chasing after the train because the murdering idiot is going to escape later on...give me a break"
Outstanding
"Magnificent period piece. Should have won the Oscar for best picture and Cate Blanchett was robbed of a best actress Oscar."
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