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starstarstarstar Susan Stark - Detroit News
starstarstarstar Peter Brunette - Film.com
starstarstarstar Jay Carr - Boston Globe
starstarstarstar Walter Addiego - SF Examiner
starstarstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstarstar Michael O’Sullivan - Washington Post
starstarstarstar Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal
starstarstar Margaret McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer
starstarstar Lisa Schwarzbaum - EW
starstarstar Joe Baltake - Sacramento Bee
starstarstar Janet Maslin - NY Times
starstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstar Shawn Levy - Portland Oregonian
starstarstar Jack Mathews - Newsday
starstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News

A dazzling entertainment that never attempts to hide its frankly contemporary slant

- Jay Carr

This historical drama is more concerned with showing tawdry sex, convoluted conspiracies and surprisingly violent killings than it is with telling the real story

- Jeff Vice

Elizabeth

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Cate Blanchett is Queen Elizabeth I, and must defend her life and throne against religious and political enemies. Geoffrey Rush, Joseph Fiennes, Kathy Burke, Richard Attenborough, Fanny Ardant, Christopher Eccleston, Vincent Cassel. Director: Shekhar Kapur (1998, R)

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