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  Review by Sam Meltzer ★ 18

  Cate if you’re reading this I’d like to let you know that I’m free Saturday night and would like to go out with you. Please respond to this if you are free as well👍😘

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  Review by tessie ★★★★

  Alright I know that the reason that she kept Walter there and got all angry at Bess was because she fancied him and was jealous of Bess, but please, don't try and tell me that she wasn't really IN LOVE with good olde Bessy and was jealous of Walter... duh

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  Review by Ciddalio ★★★ 7

  "I will not punish my people for their beliefs, only for their deeds"

  First one was better and had a more captivating story but Cate Blanchett always manages to draw your attention

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  Review by Maiya ☕ ★★★½

  Queen Elizabeth was in love with Bess. Change my mind.

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  Review by andreia ★★★★

  I am myself.

  Cate Blanchett yelling she can command the wind? Art. Cate Blanchett's deep voice? Art. Cate Blanchett in that armour? Art. Cate Blanchett? Yes, you guessed it. Art!

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  Review by jack ★★★½

  the fact that cate blanchett was Queen Elizabeth and Bob Dylan IN THE SAME YEAR is what keeps me up at night

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  Review by Wesley R. Ball ★★½ 3

  55/100

  Starkly contrasting the intense and dark themes surrounding 1998's Elizabeth, this sequel prefers to coat itself in grandiose set designs and splendid costumes, but ultimately forgets about the flat characters wearing them. The biggest issue with this sequel is that none of the actors (save Cate Blanchett and possibly Geoffrey Rush) seem truly convincing enough in their portrayals. They simply meander through the story, content with serving as mediocre supplements to our two well rounded main characters.

  Perhaps the film suffered because it mainly consisted of entirely new characters with a couple repeat actors from the previous installment. Maybe the writers figured they already knew what to do with the other characters, and so they proceeded to fill Blanchett…

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  Review by Andy Summers ★★★ 1

  Shekhar Kapur returned to his favorite time period with this follow up to 1998's Elizabeth. While never quite matching the intrigue and historical drama of the first movie, this did deliver on Kapur's trademark visuals.
  Back in 1998 Elizabeth lost out in the Oscar stakes to Shakespeare In Love. That romantic element that John Madden stirred up must have rubbed off on Kapur who injected a similar romantic overtone to Elizabeth's interaction with Clive Owen's Walter Raleigh. That for me along with some badly fictionalized historical events do detract from what is again a sumptuous looking movie full of wonderful shots and iconic imagery. From lofty overhead shots of Westminster Abbey to Blanchett's beautifully colorful costumes that include that armor…

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  Review by Eliz ★★★★★

  Every now and then I have to watch this to remind myself that men ain't shit.

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  Review by bluesrgt ★★★½

  the scene where elizabeth is on the cliff watching burning ships : art

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  Review by Enfant du Siècle ★★★ 4

  It is inevitable to draw comparisons between Elizabeth: The Golden Age and its 1998 predecessor. Beyond the fact that Blanchett and Rush reprise their characters, that Shekhar Kapur has been in charge of directing both of them, that it can be considered a continuation, or simply because it involves the same historical characters, the film is extremely similar in structure and themes to its predecessor. There we have a woman leading an unstable kingdom, conspiracies, intrigues and betrayals to overthrow her, conflict between Catholics and Protestants, strained relations with Spain and a Scottish queen, and the endless dilemma of Elizabeth's marriage and descent; it's all there and it is delivered in almost the exact same way. This per se is…

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  Review by Andy Summers ★★★½ 1

  Katharine Hepburn won four Oscars. Ingrid Bergman won three, and Meryl Streep also has three. Cate Blanchett has two at the moment, not bad for a 47 year old actress, but how many should she have had? Three? Four? More than that? I'd hasten to suggest that she'll win more in due course, but her first and fourth Nominations for playing the same historical figure, that of Queen Elizabeth I, in Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth and it's sequel Elizabeth: The Golden Age should have surely bagged her at least one.
  Elizabeth: The Golden Age gives us a fictional take on the tensions between Catholic Spain and Elizabeth's Protestant England that encompasses both the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots and the…