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A lesser director might make all of this deadly earnest, but Frears treats it as what you might call a tragi-comedy of manners, perfectly serious but human foibles everywhere.
In good times and bad, for good or ill, she is the public face of her nation. Mirren, Frears and Morgan let us see just how much a burden that mask has been.
We see not only the inner corridors of power, but also sense the inner workings of the royal mind. Stephen Frears' deft direction also gives the film insight and even humor.
That's Mirren's magic: She makes us care, no matter how shallow our curtsies.
Borne with grace and honor on the back of Helen Mirren's astounding title performance, The Queen manages to encompass the personal and political with both depth and grace.
Although Mirren transforms into a living human being as artfully as any actor I have ever seen in Stephen Frears' portrait of a woman and royalty under siege, the movie in which she performs this alchemy is every bit as good as she is.
The Queen will knock your socks off.
Stuffed with stinging truths about swiftly turning winds of public opinion, Stephen Frears' film is a tough, fair-minded and, at times, morbidly satirical depiction of the extraordinary circumstance of leading in grief as well as government.
Trenchantly stages its climax around the passing of an era
Surely to be considered at Oscar time.
A disappointingly claustrophobic play at sympathy for someone so out of touch with her 'subjects.' And why blow it up for the big screen? . . . Where's the arc? The tragic flaw? The ebbs and flows to her character? . . . A middle-of-the-pack chamber drama
Helen Mirren kicks it royal style in this acclaimed drama about the most misunderstood HRH of all.
Director Stephen Frears' The Queen offers an incisive and utterly persuasive glimpse behind the scenes of recent history.
Death of Diana causes crisis for British royals.
Whatever the Sex Pistols say, she is a human being.
The Queen is an unqualified triumph that works on all levels.
Like the Queen, Mirren is saying: This is how you act, this is how you survive, this is how you reign.
I was to this film. It's slow and plodding throughout, yet the format Frears brings to the table is gripping in its balance.
...a compelling drama that effectively humanizes the title character...
An intelligent script that keeps in the spirit and tone of Britain's House of Mountbatten-Windsor, and yet slyly manages a wink at the audience every now and then.
I never thought I'd get choked up over a movie about the stuffy upper-crust of the British monarchy, but then along came The Queen.
Buena Vista's transfer renders the intended looks faithfully.
... beneath the simple and straightforward facade lies a hidden depth that does not announce itself with dramatic intensity ...
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