Very touching

Clunkily scripted and generically pretty in a Stately Home porn kind of way, the film is vaguely accurate in its sequence of events but falls completely flat on personal relationships, psychology and political undercurrents — in other words, the stuff that makes history come alive.

Jay Weissberg

Variety

The historical saga can feel cursory, at times unconvincingly rendered given how many events and far-flung locales this overly ambitious film strains to cover on a seemingly limited budget.

Gary Goldstein

Los Angeles Times

A dramatic life does not necessarily a dramatic film make.

Rachel Saltz

The New York Times