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The Atlantic

Victoria & Abdul is worth seeing for Dench's magisterial performance and for Frears's light but sure directorial touch. Just don't mistake it for actual history.

September 29, 2017

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Ex-Press.com

Awareness is where Frears balances both humour and drama because it's the core of the story, emotionally and politically. We can laugh at the politesse disguising denial, at the court's love of the crusty status quo, but Abdul is the emissary of change.

October 29, 2017

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The New Paper (Singapore)

While Dench's performance is convincing, there is a distinct lack of chemistry between the pair.

November 09, 2017

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New Yorker

The film's attempt to portray the Queen as more politically enlightened than her courtiers is kindly but unconvincing, and many of the actors bark and behave as if participating in a spoof.

September 29, 2017

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Fresh Fiction

Packaged tightly with endearing charm and soul-gratifying beauty, this British drama eschews all aristocratic stuffiness, favoring humor and earned poignancy.

November 04, 2017

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Globe and Mail

It's a neatly executed lark but one that eventually becomes ensnared in the colonialism it seeks to expose.

September 29, 2017

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Cinemanía (Spain)

... the sumptuous (or bombastic) melodrama is not lacking: Victoria & Abdul recreates in its own majesty... falling into the sins of Orientalism. [Full review in Spanish]

November 07, 2017

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Seattle Times

This film - which is, we're told, "based on real events - mostly" - tells of how the elderly queen got her groove back, so to speak.

September 29, 2017

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Minneapolis Star Tribune

It's up to historians to assess how accurate this funny, charming film is to the details of Queen Victoria's last years, but its use of poetic license is impeccable.

September 29, 2017

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The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

Victoria's story has been told pretty thoroughly, and this was probably Abdul's only shot on the big screen. It's such a shame they wasted it.

October 26, 2017

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The Straits Times (Singapore)

[STephen Frears] seems to have run out of ideas, despite Dench's riveting turn as Queen Victoria, Empress of India.

November 08, 2017

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Chicago Reader

Victoria & Abdul may capture the ugly side of Britain's colonial past, but its demeaning portrait of Abdul reinforces the Orientalism it purports to lampoon.

October 13, 2017

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