Jean-Marc Vallée directs Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend and Paul Bettany in this romantic period drama where the future queen has to navigate everyone trying to be in control of her before she takes the throne or a lover.

Every young British actress on the rise has to make one of these. It is the law. Blunt either lucked out or somehow managed to soar above her rote material. I reckon the reason this is a bit more special is the latter.

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Perfect Double Bill: Mary Queen Of Scots (2018)

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