Miss Potter star Renée Zellweger might have helped drag her modest, turn-of-the-century biopic to wider commendation.
However, Helen Mirren’s towering turn as Elizabeth I in the HBO film of the same name and as Elizabeth II in The Queen
effectively
cornered the 2006 market on real-life British figures, sucking the
awards circuit oxygen out of the room.

Miss Potter, then, remains a story of bucolic idyll — a dainty-literary piece in the mold of Finding Neverland, but one with no profound or stirring rumination on imagination, or loss, or any of the other themes that the movie putatively touches upon. For the full review, from FilmStew, click here.