An elegant, emotional period drama, boasting splendid performances from the leading trio and maintaining a remarkable degree of consistency in its portrayal of a particular period of the Danish monarchy. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 4, 2023

It's a thoughtful, delicate romance that deserved more recognition on its release.

| Aug 18, 2022

If the story presented in A Royal Affair wasnt true, its doubtful anyone would believe it.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 29, 2022

An interesting and worthwhile movie.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 19, 2019

Mads Mikkelsen is emerging as one of Europe's most intriguing actors.

| Aug 14, 2019

There's a sumptuous vibrancy to the film, especially in many of the film's outdoor sequences. But it's the three leads of A Royal Affair that solidify this as a delightful endeavor.

| Aug 6, 2019

Featuring a commanding performance from the ever-impressive Mads Mikkelsen, there is much here to admire -- and even more to decadently enjoy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 10, 2019

It is a polished, exciting piece of work.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 19, 2018

As a period piece based on a true story, it's not surprising A Royal Affair is long. But it's also fascinating and will keep audience's attention the full two-plus hours. This story was made for the screen.

| Dec 14, 2018

Although, at times, this is rather coolly aloof in tone, the cast is knock-out, and it is so excellently and expertly done, I'm pretty sure it will float your boat.

| Sep 1, 2018

Avoids being a mere bodice-ripper, transcending clichés to create an immensly enjoyable and intelligent period romp.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2018

It may be a steamy and sumptuous bodice-ripper, but "A Royal Affair" aspires to much more and succeeds in becoming a thoughtful and universal period piece.

| Aug 7, 2018

The great achievement of director Nikolaj Arcel and screenwriter Rasmus Heisterberg ... is to satisfactorily unite the romantic, dramatic and political elements into a single cohesive unit where all parts are inter-dependent.

| Jan 3, 2018

Overall, another darkly brooding slice of rich drama from Scandinavia.

| Oct 3, 2017

Sex, power and politics drive Danish film-maker Nikolaj Arcel's intelligent and soundly crafted historical drama.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 11, 2017

The volatile mix of sex and politics is at the core of the sumptuously produced Danish film A Royal Affair, which, by underplaying its combustible material, fails to do full justice to it.

| Original Score: B | Oct 1, 2014

A well-crafted drama about three flawed individuals who changed the course of history in Denmark.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 30, 2013

Out of some dry lines, Shakespearean allusions, and its playing with statecraft as stagecraft, this slowly emerges as more than just some ruffle-collared, frilly-cuffed throne-porn-there's a sharp quill and glinting eye behind the gilt-edged curtain.

Full Review | May 6, 2013

Denmark's Oscar nominee is a fact-inspired historical melodrama, but it's intriguing, elegantly shot, and well acted by the actors forming the romantic triangle.

| Original Score: B | Feb 6, 2013

The heady mix of power, politics, ideology, romance and corsets is a rare, royal feast.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 5, 2013