There’s something serious – and beautiful – about Mary

SOMETIMES I am quite baffled by the verdicts of professional reviewers. The new movie about Mary Queen of Scots, starring Saoirse Ronan, left, is far better than I’d been led to expect. There’s some political correctness, some silly sex, some liberties taken with the facts – but it’s mainly a serious and sometimes rather beautiful attempt to portray one of the great stories of history. Unlike the absurdly overpraised The Favourite, which is drivel.