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This Masterpiece Theatre-funded docudrama about Queen Victoria's unusually close "friendship" with her Scottish manservant is said to reflect both the virtues and flaws of the PBS TV series: strong performances from actors little known in the United States (Antony Sher, Judi Dench, and Billy Connolly), but also a cloying pretentiousness and "decorousness" (Janet Maslin, New York Times ). The movie "often feels pat and resolutely performed for the camera, scene by scene," says the Wall Street Journal 's Joe Morgenstern.