Enjoyed best in stops and starts. Doesn't cohere into a compelling narrative, but particular scenes are memorable and fun to watch.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 23, 2021

Cate is a wondrous actress but she is scandalously ill served here, and not just by the facile nature of the dialogue... It's as if the director has a checklist of the characteristics he wishes her to display and she should just get on with it.

| Aug 23, 2018

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

As an historical reenactment it suffers from a great deal of simplification in order to make complex events quickly and easily understandable, and as a drama it suffers from a great deal of build that never really pays on it's promise.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Mar 21, 2011

Calamitous

| Aug 27, 2009

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| Original Score: 4/10 | Jul 15, 2009

Every shot, every costume is decadent with color, and every single twitch of Blanchett's face is imbued with meaning as she negotiates her way through her warring roles of being a woman and being a queen.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 23, 2008

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

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 1, 2008

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 10, 2008

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

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 3, 2008

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

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 28, 2008

A pedigreed romance, an excuse for Blanchett to bind herself in satin and channel Kate Hepburn.

| Original Score: B | Feb 21, 2008

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 18, 2008

A sequel, a costume fantasy, a romantic melodrama, a CGI war spectacular, a puzzling celebration of beauty over substance.

| Feb 4, 2008

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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 25, 2008

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

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 24, 2007

... 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.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 7, 2007

"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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 19, 2007

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.

| Nov 17, 2007

The elaborate costumes and set decoration provide the only interest.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 9, 2007