All the lush sets and elaborate costumes cannot disguise the fact that Portman is terribly cast.
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The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
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Reviews Counted:135
Fresh:56
Rotten:79
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: Though it features some extravagant and entertaining moments, The Other Boleyn Girl feels more like a soap opera than historical drama.
Theatrical Release:Feb 29, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $26,814,957
Synopsis: Based on the best selling novel by Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl is an engrossing and sensual tale of intrigue, romance, and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in... [More]
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Reviews for The Other Boleyn Girl
If the late Aaron Spelling had lived long enough to produce Showtime's The Tudors, the result might have been something like The Other Boleyn Girl...
05/01/08
Hey, wait a minute, is the movie supposed to be this funny?
03/17/08
The film's seduction is all too obvious to ravish anyone.
02/29/08
Portman, Johansson and Bana may be hot, but they can’t light a match next to the emotional fireworks of Richard Burton, Genevieve Bujold, Paul Scofield, Vanessa Redgrave and Robert Shaw.
02/27/08
A very entertaining and involving story of family and sacrifice.
07/22/08
The Other Boleyn Girl turns British history into a chick flick soaper with high production values and A-list actors.
03/01/08
superficial and staged
02/28/08
It probably shouldn't be the way in which high-school kids learn about Henry VIII and his court, but it's a fun movie.
02/28/08
The umpteenth film incarnation of Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn, The Other Boleyn Girl races through the events at the Tudor court like a triple-time miniseries.
02/28/08
There are enough of these films now that you can stitch them all together and come away with a complete (if completely inaccurate) history of jolly old England.
02/29/08
There will always be adults who want to catch up on the history lessons they slept or passed notes through during their younger years.
02/29/08
Chest-heaving displays of humiliation and social positioning...Other Boleyn Girl isn't high art, but it's juicy; 2008's first guilty pleasure.
02/28/08
Only in a movie this poorly made could a decapitation be dull.
02/29/08
Chadwick and Morgan have cooked up a potboiler, the sort of thing that might have been fun to watch with Bette Davis and Joan Crawford as the Boleyn sisters, while Charles Laughton lasciviously eyed the backs of their necks as Henry.
02/29/08
Top CriticA cautionary tale of what unchecked ambition and lust can do to a person, a family, a nation.
03/03/08
Most of us know where this story is headed (ba-da-bum), and in order for the moment in question to have impact (ba-da-thump), Anne should engender at least a modicum of sympathy.
02/29/08
Given the zing and zip of [screenwriter] Morgan's prior work, it's fair to guess that the film's want of rhythm and sweep is due to Justin Chadwick's pedestrian direction.
02/28/08
Top CriticThe talented cast is largely wasted.
02/28/08
What Boleyn Girl lacks in character development, it makes up in vigor, immediacy and intelligence.
02/29/08
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