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Elizabeth's most triumphant aspect is Blanchett's transformation from saucy, spirited toe-tapper to iconic Virgin Queen.

The movie's approach makes for juicy melodrama.

This Elizabeth is presented as a glamorously stressed-out modern woman who must cope with a super-intense case of having it all.

Bollywood meets The Godfather.

This darkly sumptuous, hypnotically complex movie ought to have many constituencies.

Despite the florid trailers' emphasis on bodice-ripping romantic imagery, Elizabeth is above all a political thriller.

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.

Acted and directed with great energy and imagination.

History rendered with enough brains and imagination to more than make up for its few stumbles.

A notably undynamic treatment of Protestant Elizabeth I's ascension to the British throne.