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Academy Award Winner: Best Achievement in Costume Design, 2008.
Queen Elizabeth I (Cate Blanchett) faces threats to her rule from abroad and at home. Determined to restore England to Catholicism, Spain's King Philip II unleashes the might of his armada against her. Sworn to her country body and soul, Elizabeth must resist her love for charismatic seafarer Sir Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen) and instead must watch as he and her handmaiden grow closer. Finally, trusted adviser Walsingham (Geoffrey Rush) uncovers a plot involving Elizabeth's cousin, Mary Stuart.
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With her regal bearing, pale beauty and air of wicked intelligence, Cate Blanchett is divinely right as Queen Elizabeth I in director Shekhar Kapur's "Elizabeth: The Golden Age," just as she was in his very fine "Elizabeth: The Virgin Queen" in 1998. But this sequel, a choppy melodrama that charges through history like a steed bound for the stable, squanders her shamefully. (Full review)