Example sentences for: blanchett

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  • The first half of this film offers an exhilarating peek into the high-pressure world of air traffic controllers, but despite the best efforts of a choice ensemble cast (John Cusack, Cate Blanchett, Billy Bob Thornton, Angelina Jolie), the movie tanks by the end.

  • ) But Blanchett comes in a close second, pulling off the transition from hapless young woman to coolly ruthless monarch with uncommon subtlety.

  • Some love the "darkly sumptuous, hypnotically complex" plotting (Richard Schickel, Time ); others call the film "Masterpiece Theater for the MTV generation," riddled with glaring historical inaccuracies (Rod Dreher, the New York Post ). Two things draw praise from all: 1) The spectacular art direction; 2) Cate Blanchett's performance as a feminist Virgin Queen.

  • As the movie tells it, she was a sylvan, redheaded princess (Cate Blanchett) given to gamboling with her fella (Joseph Fiennes) between periods of internment in the Tower of London on charges of conspiring to overthrow her half-sister, the heatedly Catholic Queen Mary (Kathy Burke).

  • That "modern" note is largely absent from Parker's adaptation, in which Gertrude is the soulful center and Blanchett's performance is radiant in its forthrightness.


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