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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Brad Wheeler
As entertainment, the film is pedantic and over-dramatic, with the string section working overtime on the soundtrack.
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What are critics saying?
30
Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein
The historical saga can feel cursory, at times unconvincingly rendered given how many events and far-flung locales this overly ambitious film strains to cover on a seemingly limited budget.
30
Clunkily scripted and generically pretty in a Stately Home porn kind of way, the film is vaguely accurate in its sequence of events but falls completely flat on personal relationships, psychology and political undercurrents — in other words, the stuff that makes history come alive.
30
The New York Times by Rachel Saltz
A dramatic life does not necessarily a dramatic film make.