2/5

As dumb as history gets.

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05/24/08

2/5

But saddled with this dopey script, [Blanchett] is stuck pulling a series of poses and wearing one ornate gown after another.

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05/01/08

2.5/4

Blanchett is again director Shekhar Kapur's greatest asset. His weakness is his tendency to fall back on silly, melodramatic contrivance better suited to popcorn fare than to a believable meditation on Elizabethan England.

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04/10/08

B+

Betrayal, war, love triangles and most importantly, Cate Blanchett proves to be able to capture strength, anger and sadness better...

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03/03/08

6/10

This is an epic, to be sure, but it is also a melodrama, a soap opera of titanic scale and bluster.

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02/28/08

1/5

Figurinos, direção de arte e fotografia são exuberantes, mas fica até difícil apreciar a performance de Cate Blanchett em meio a um roteiro tão estúpido e à direção "olhem-pra-mim-sou-Cecil-B.-DeMille!" de Shekhar Kapur.

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02/18/08

2/5

Menos interesante y más rutinaria que la primera Elizabeth (de 1998), esta segunda parte vale la pena más que nada por otra brillante composición de Cate Blanchett.

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01/25/08

2/5

a muddle that subsumes [its] premise in a mighty attempt to be several things all at once, with an uneven delivery

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12/24/07

2.5/4

... fearsome and passionate with its visual flair, but incredibly confused as to how it wants to address Elizabeth's life beyond what has already been realized.

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12/07/07

4/5

"Elizabeth: The Golden Age" is a worthy sequel to "Elizabeth". Cate Blanchett delivers the same performance that earned her so much praise the first time around. The epic feel harkens back to Hollywood's Golden Age.

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11/19/07

N/A

Blanchett and the film powerfully embody the range of Elizabeth's mind and the force of her intellect, along with the necessary balance between moral scruple and realpolitik.

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11/17/07

2/4

The elaborate costumes and set decoration provide the only interest.

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11/09/07

N/A

It may have been a gamble for director Shekhar Kapur to pick up the threads of his acclaimed film Elizabeth from nine years earlier but the result is overtly satisfying

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11/09/07

2/4

Unreliable as history and misguided as a contemporary allegory, Golden Age finally fails because it is a half-hearted spectacle, not even filmed in a widescreen format.

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11/07/07

N/A

Cate Blanchett's workaholic Queen Liz too busy for boy toys, in this royal runway strut more about fashion statements than political statements.

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11/05/07

3/5

Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth sequel is a beautifully shot, impeccably designed and largely entertaining drama, providing you're not a stickler for historical accuracy.

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11/02/07

4/5

If this is a film that irritates nearly as much as it pleases, we do get a sense of the times, and of the lady in question. The eyes, if not the brain, are certainly given a workout that they will remember.

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11/02/07

3/5

See it anyway for Blanchett's soulful modulation between queenly command and womanly anguish.

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11/02/07

N/A

The pity of this botched follow-up is that it never once touches us.

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11/02/07