Lou Lumenick, The New York Post:
'History tells us that when the film opens in 1585, Elizabeth, who has been on the throne for 27 years, is 52 years old, and that Raleigh is 19 years her junior.'
'Blanchett, if anything, looks younger than her 38 years -- and Owen, in real life, is five years older than Blanchett.'
'But they're both so good and good-looking that you can accept the queen making goo-goo eyes over the poetry-spouting Sir Walter, who returns from the New World just after she's endured a bad-date montage of potential suitors.'
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