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Mary Queen of Scots review: “Reaches for the twists and treachery of a real-life Game of Thrones”

Two ruling box-office queens, Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie, go head-to-head in this richly packed but over-ambitious royal biopic, recreating the seven-year rivalry between plucky, fate-battered Mary, Queen of Scots and her determined cousin, England’s Elizabeth 1. Debut director Josie Rourke sets her handsomely styled feminist melodrama off at a …

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