The film's seduction is all too obvious to ravish anyone.
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02/29/08
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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
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
superficial and staged
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 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
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 CriticMost 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
Your eyes will probably roll before anyone's head does.
02/27/08
Top Critic[An] oversimplified, overheated mediocre melodrama.
02/29/08
Adapted from Philippa Gregory's 2002 novel, the potentially captivating subject of two sisters put before a womanizing king by their power-hungry father and uncle, is alas much less than the sum of its parts.
02/23/08
Such unwieldy mechanisms only draw attention to the movie's narrative contrivances.
03/21/08
Feminist subtext aside, the movie is primarily an excuse for ogling some blue-chip actor-flesh.
02/28/08
Why in the name of ermine boleros would anyone make such a dull, coy and, worst of all, pretty film about Anne Boleyn?
03/07/08
With only one member of its love triangle really delivering, this packs less of an emotional punch than it ought. And who'd be a courtier, eh?
03/07/08
Even by its own standards, the movie becomes increasingly macabre and ludicrous as Anne's machinations get the better of her, and everyone, including the audience, is left feeling shattered, shaken and vaguely unclean for having participated in all this.
02/28/08
Top CriticIn the hands of a more competent director, Peter Morgan's strong script might have been turned into something more memorable.
02/26/08
As the girls' mother, Kristin Scott Thomas is basically reduced to shaking her head, sighing and wondering how things turned out so badly. Indeed.
02/29/08
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August 23, 2008:
Iconoclast.com: An all in the dysfunctional family royal romp with incestuous tendencies, this richly textured, dramatically disciplined, erotically laced and emotionally taut creation makes for weirdly kinky historical analysis. 
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June 18, 2008:
An all in the dysfunctional family royal romp with incestuous tendencies, this richly textured, dramatically disciplined, erotically laced and emotionally taut creation makes for weirdly kinky historical analysis, but pretty steamy pre-tabloid melodrama.
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