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Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Paula Nechak
: Provided you don't take it seriously, it makes for an addictively entertaining diversion...
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B-
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Rolling Stone - Peter Travers
: It's Knightley who makes The Duchess a royal treat.
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B
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ReelViews - James Berardinelli
: It has impeccable production values but feels like a Masterpiece Theater production of a Harlequin romance novel.
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C
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New York Times - Manohla Dargis
: ...an overstuffed, intellectually underbaked portrait of a poor little rich girl...
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C
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New York Post - Kyle Smith
: Everything is predictable three scenes in advance, and it's all stale, stuck, stolid.
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C-
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Los Angeles Times - Kenneth Turan
: (Fiennes gives) a quietly complex performance almost beyond words, and it overshadows all the gorgeous pictures that are its elegant frame.
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B
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filmcritic.com - Sean O'Connell
: ...exquisite...
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B+
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Entertainment Weekly - Lisa Schwarzbaum
: Fiennes... develops a beautiful, wordless vocabulary of hurt, frustration, sadism, lust, discomfort, arrogance, remorse, and unanalyzed pain for his Duke.
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B
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E! Online - Dezhda Gaubert
: ...we see her (Knightley's) boudoir than her brain, the main downfall of this no-expense-spared lavish period piece.
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C+
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Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert
: ...a handsome historical film, impeccably mounted, gowned, wigged and feathered...
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A-
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