Release dates
September 22, 2017
93 months agoCinema
Released
TBA
Victoria and Abdul release date
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What the critics say
Based on 14 reviews, Victoria and Abdul gets an average review score of 62
Late in her reign, the bored, stifled and mournful Queen Victoria (Judi Dench) encounters a young Indian clerk named Abdul Kareem (Ali Fazal). After becoming unlikely friends, their relationship deepens, with Victoria announcing Ali as her “Munshi”, or Indian Secretary — much to the consternation of her courtiers, particularly her son, Bertie (Eddie Izzard), the future King Edward VII.
2771d ago
Judi Dench and Ali Fazal add whimsy to period piece Victoria & Abdul.
2771d ago
“Victoria & Abdul” may not convert its feel-good sensibilities into something more resonant the way “Philomena” did in its third act, nor is it as delightful as “Florence Foster Jenkins,” but at the end of the day, its main concerns are depicting a fond, mutually affectionate relationship and to that end the film is warmhearted, tender and sincerely gives a crap.
2771d ago
Brit wit Stephen Fry once said of Judi Dench, "Railings should be built around her so that all may admire her in an orderly and respectful fashion."
2771d ago
Judi Dench returns to the role of Queen Victoria in Stephen Frears' account of an unlikely friendship that brightened the elderly monarch's final years.
2771d ago
Judi Dench is queen for yet another day in the tepid Victoria And Abdul.
2771d ago
Look at Queen Victoria's friendship with Indian Muslim clerk is "slim pickings" – and fails to examine complicated cultural, historical questions.
2771d ago
Victoria & Abdul is a pleasant enough entertainment, and it will bring the inevitable awards chatter Dench’s way (is her acting ever less than pinpoint? Never). But as prestige period pieces go, it’s far from top-drawer (more like second drawer, or even third), because its cozy lack of enlightenment is echoed in the standard but far from scintillating play of its drama.
2771d ago
In the shift from comedy to drama the movie goes wobbly.
2771d ago
Doug Liman’s yarn about drug running and C.I.A. intrigue, starring Tom Cruise, and Stephen Frears’s Queen Victoria bio-pic, starring Judi Dench.
2771d ago
This fascinating real-life tale is reduced to biscuit-tin proportions.
2771d ago
Stephen Frears traffics in cutesy colonialism but the film offers up all the colors in Dame Judi’s paintbox.
2771d ago
Dench is as dependable as ever as an aging Queen Victoria besotted with her young Indian servant in creaky, old-fashioned drama from Stephen Frears.
2771d ago
By privileging the white characters in its narrative, Victoria & Abdul exposes itself as insidiously hypocritical.
2771d ago