Well done and beautifully produced. Satisfactorily explains the incest charge against Anne Boleyn.
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02/28/08
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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
Eric Bana is absolutely Fabio-lous ... ready to burst from the cover of a romance novel at any moment.
02/28/08
It's just another pointlessly dressed-up take on a story that's already plenty overdressed.
02/28/08
Your eyes will probably roll before anyone's head does.
02/27/08
Top CriticPortman, 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
Whatever its virtues, this is entirely too much melodrama to cram into a feature film. Characters are lost, too much happens off camera, and the whole compacted thing feels like Reader's Digest history.
02/27/08
A sexy Tudor soap opera about the beautiful, sensual and tragic second wife of Henry VIII.
02/27/08
Top CriticPlays like a bad period soap opera, burying the fascinating complexity of the events of the 1530s in crude historical oversimplification and melodramatic cliche.
02/27/08
In the hands of a more competent director, Peter Morgan's strong script might have been turned into something more memorable.
02/26/08
It's trapped between being a tense political procedural and a sensual sex drama and it doesn't have the guts to be either.
02/26/08
And what of these young American actresses’ putting on British accents to vie for the king? They seem, at first, like coeds in a college production of The Importance of Being Earnest, but once the dislocation fades, their commitment wins you over.
02/25/08
Top CriticAdapted 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
Shot in high definition and filmed at many historic locations, the film somehow still lacks the splendor of an epic.
02/19/08
A sexy, good-looking political bodice-ripper with an almost flawless cast at the top of its game.
02/19/08
A hybrid of a trashy period piece and a stately Masterpiece Theater episode, this kitschy melodrama can't decide how much to exploit its juicy text about lusty King Henry VIII and his troubled relationships with the Boleyn sisters (Portman and Johansson).
02/08/08
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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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June 09, 2008:
RT on DVD: Bosomy Boleyn Girls, Jumper, John Adams
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June 05, 2008:
Another Boleyn Girl On the Way?
Despite lukewarm reviews and middling box-office receipts, rumor has it that work has begun on a sequel to The Other Boleyn Girl. More...
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