Elizabeth (1998) Critic Reviews
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Superior historical soap opera that shrewdly sidesteps all the cliches of British costume drama with its bold, often modern approach.Read the full review
The fabulous Elizabeth reinvents English Tudor history as gangster movie.Read the full review
Where Elizabeth really triumphs over its dusty source material is in transforming all this boring history into a real, rip-roaring adventure tale.Read the full review
The texture of the film is enough to recommend it, even apart from the story.Read the full review
This is a sensual, psychologically modern costume drama influenced by both "The Godfather" and gals' guides to empowerment.Read the full review
Period movies inevitably reflect more about the period in which they're made than the period of their subject, and rarely has that been more evident -- or more distracting -- than it is with Elizabeth.Read the full review
This Elizabeth is presented as a glamorously stressed-out modern woman who must cope with a super-intense case of having it all.Read the full review
The movie's approach makes for juicy melodrama.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
It's a rousing adventure that keeps the audience involved for the entirety of the two hour running time while opening a window into the culture that gave birth to Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, Francis Bacon, and William Shakespeare.Read the full review
