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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : As nearly as possible in a movie that lasts three hours and covers maybe 10 years, ''Cromwell'' is faithful to the facts. We follow King Charles' differences with Parliament, Cromwell's differences with Charles and Parliament, everyone's feelings about the divine right of kings, and Cromwell's final seizure of power. We follow them all too well, but with little sense of the human beings involved. more...
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popmatters.com - : From the opening scenes, Hughes hits the hagiography trail. Far more significant than the errors about chronology and battles (and the fact that Hughes loses one whole war altogether) is the way he frames Cromwell as the archetypal reluctant rebel, driven to action only to protect the common people and their religion from aristocratic and royal persecution. more...
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www.clevelandmemory.org - : ''Cromwell'' is an excellent historical spectacle movie, the kind of lavishly mounted picture that film observers keep saying are gone forever because of the high costs of making them. more...
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