Critic Reviews
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Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
Add ''The Virgin Queen" to the list of PBS's Sunday night gems, and see it as evidence that ''Masterpiece Theatre" still has a distinguished purpose. |
| 83 |
Entertainment Weekly Alynda Wheat
It's a rendering of the old girl that's less reverential, to be certain, but nonetheless more human. [11 Nov 2005, p.65] |
| 70 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
An unusually earthy portrayal of the formidable Tudor queen. |
| 70 |
Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
And though it will not dethrone [Glenda] Jackson's as the definitive Queen Bess miniseries, or make you feel for its lonely-at-the-top protagonist as deeply as you might, it is, for most of its four hours, diverting educational fun, mostly true to the encyclopedia but not at all dry. |
| 50 |
Hollywood Reporter Laurence Vittes
With its scope and excitement, not to mention a colorful score mixing elements of the Elizabethan period, New Age and Riverdance, families may well find this hugely entertaining and reasonably well paced. But PBS regulars, beware! |
| 30 |
The New York Times Ginia Bellafante
The production prods and pokes at the young queen, laboring relentlessly, and without much success, to draw some sort of grand conclusion about her. |
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