Brilliantly portrays the public nature of Royal life, and the personal side of a figure we all know.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 15, 2022

Helen Mirren, acting royalty in her own right, earned a well-deserved Oscar for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II...

| Sep 10, 2022

The writing, by Peter Morgan, is pitched perfectly — pathos and an empathy for the tragedy of the situation is matched by the elegant wit and well-observed humour of the piece.

| Aug 30, 2022

As always, Mirren is superb as a woman who believes her motivations are beyond reproach, as Queen and that protocol justifies everything.

| Dec 29, 2021

The Queen feels like a classic women's picture with a 21st-century media-age makeover.

| Jan 28, 2020

It's surprising how tame and incurious Stephen Frears' documentation of the aftermath of Diana's death on the Royal Family (and the Queen in particular) actually is.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 21, 2019

A fantastic, endlessly engrossing film, anchored by some of the year's best performances and Alexandre Desplat's liltingly beautiful score.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 6, 2019

Makes for engaging and entertaining viewing. Not just the subject, it's also the interpretation and storytelling that one closely identifies with.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 25, 2019

A slyly amusing blend of fact, fantasy and hearsay set in England in 1997.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2018

Frears's movie pays Britain's first family the supreme compliment of taking it seriously, and it's hard not to feel that the results will enjoy a long and fruitful reign in the affections of moviegoers.

| Aug 21, 2018

The film makes brilliant use of juxtaposition to underscore the class divide between the Windsors and the Blairs.

| Apr 12, 2018

The Queen's myopia is so complete, the performances so meticulous, that you can't help but start to care about, or pine for, or want to overthrow the British monarchy.

| Mar 1, 2018

Helen Mirren gives perhaps her most remarkable performance in an already remarkable career.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 30, 2017

The Queen will knock your socks off.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 9, 2011

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.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 17, 2010

Trenchantly stages its climax around the passing of an era

| Aug 28, 2009

Surely to be considered at Oscar time.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 29, 2009

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.

| Oct 18, 2008

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

| Oct 9, 2008

Director Stephen Frears' The Queen offers an incisive and utterly persuasive glimpse behind the scenes of recent history.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 7, 2008