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Though it features some extravagant and entertaining moments, The Other Boleyn Girl feels more like a soap opera than historical drama.
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... loses steam when the catfighting abruptly gives way to grim realpolitik. Jan 31, 2018 | Full Review…
... loses steam when the catfighting abruptly gives way to grim realpolitik.
David Ansen
It is absurd yet enjoyable, and playing fast and loose with English history is a refreshing alternative to slow and tight solemnity; the effect is genial, even mildly subversive. Mar 7, 2008 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It is absurd yet enjoyable, and playing fast and loose with English history is a refreshing alternative to slow and tight solemnity; the effect is genial, even mildly subversive.
Peter Bradshaw
Ultimately we are meant to eat chocolates, admire their trembling lower lips, and choose sides. Mar 7, 2008 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Ultimately we are meant to eat chocolates, admire their trembling lower lips, and choose sides.
James Christopher
Ravishing frocks and heaving bosoms are the main constituents of The Other Boleyn Girl, an entertaining bodice ripper lightly disguised as historical fiction. Mar 7, 2008 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Ravishing frocks and heaving bosoms are the main constituents of The Other Boleyn Girl, an entertaining bodice ripper lightly disguised as historical fiction.
Paul Arendt
Why in the name of ermine boleros would anyone make such a dull, coy and, worst of all, pretty film about Anne Boleyn? Mar 7, 2008 | Rating: 2/6 | Full Review…
Why in the name of ermine boleros would anyone make such a dull, coy and, worst of all, pretty film about Anne Boleyn?
Dave Calhoun
I think the performances are really good. Mar 3, 2008
I think the performances are really good.
Richard Roeper
This is cliché heaped on cliché and hopelessly artificial. Aug 22, 2018 | Full Review…
This is cliché heaped on cliché and hopelessly artificial.
Deborah Ross
There was no time to be bored in this breathless period piece about royal misbehavior, although I was often bewildered and confused. Nov 29, 2017 | Full Review…
There was no time to be bored in this breathless period piece about royal misbehavior, although I was often bewildered and confused.
Brian D. Johnson
This well-crafted historical drama is a treat for Tudor history fans and everyone else who appreciates a lusty tale. Aug 17, 2017 | Rating: B | Full Review…
This well-crafted historical drama is a treat for Tudor history fans and everyone else who appreciates a lusty tale.
Julie Washington
Irresistibly salacious soap opera, teeming with lust, scheming, backstabbing, and some outrageously overheated plot twists. Aug 12, 2012 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Irresistibly salacious soap opera, teeming with lust, scheming, backstabbing, and some outrageously overheated plot twists.
Michael Dequina
Apart from the close ups of the lead actresses in 16th century garb, this movie is recommended only to soap opera aficionados and lovers of corsets. Jan 19, 2010 | Rating: 63/100 | Full Review…
Apart from the close ups of the lead actresses in 16th century garb, this movie is recommended only to soap opera aficionados and lovers of corsets.
Jamie Gillies
Dreary Aug 27, 2009 | Full Review…
Dreary
Fernando F. Croce
Natalie Portman is great, and in fact the only one who stands out from the cast, but even though mildly intriguing, it is too bad that this period drama feels like a slow-paced soap opera more concerned about melodrama than historical accuracy.
Super Reviewer
Excellent cast and based on a true story about two sisters who are pawned by their family into the Kings' court to bed King Henry VIII and produce a heir to the throne. The King breaks with the Catholic church when his wife, the Queen cannot give him an heir, in order to marry Anne Boleyn. She gives him an heir, not a son but a daughter - Elizabeth who ruled for 45 years after Henry's death. I love the costumes and drama. Great cast.
Excellent period drama that tells a perfect and dead on story of Anne (Natalie Portman) & Mary Boleyn (Scarlett Johansson) as they both seduce King Henry VIII (Eric Bana) in this dramatic & tragic film masterpiece.
Stylish and well directed, superb costumes and strong performances, the movie stand out to be truly enjoyable and highly dramatic.
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