(C-) Elizabeth: The Golden Age is one tinny movie. It renders the bloody climax of Queen Elizabeth I’s rivalry with her Catholic cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Britain’s defeat of the Spanish Armada as an upbeat Protestant passion play. The Virgin Queen of England, Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett), unsullied except for a single kiss from Sir Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen), rallies her country against …
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