The film is marginally enjoyable in that sort of sleazy Jerry Springer fashion, but the filmmakers aren’t making a compelling case here for why their artistic license is necessarily more amusing or insightful than history itself.

| Apr 21, 2023

A hoot.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 9, 2021

The concept of despicable people doing contemptible things never really leads to solid entertainment.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 28, 2020

Largely carried by Portman's stellar performance.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 19, 2020

A grand, gorgeous production to be sure, but there is little substance beneath the glitz.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 6, 2019

This is cliché heaped on cliché and hopelessly artificial.

| Aug 23, 2018

... loses steam when the catfighting abruptly gives way to grim realpolitik.

| Feb 1, 2018

There was no time to be bored in this breathless period piece about royal misbehavior, although I was often bewildered and confused.

| Nov 30, 2017

This well-crafted historical drama is a treat for Tudor history fans and everyone else who appreciates a lusty tale.

| Original Score: B | Aug 17, 2017

Irresistibly salacious soap opera, teeming with lust, scheming, backstabbing, and some outrageously overheated plot twists.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 12, 2012

| Original Score: C | Feb 18, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2011

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.

| Original Score: 63/100 | Jan 19, 2010

Dreary

| Aug 27, 2009

A run-of-the-mill costume drama that made me think more about running home and Wikipedia-ing the characters than investing in the story before me.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 8, 2008

A very entertaining and involving story of family and sacrifice.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 22, 2008

The history may have been narratively scrunched, but it's all the true lives of some powerful and unfortunate people. Very lush.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 17, 2008

Portman confere peso dramtico Ana Bolena, mas Johansson e Bana parecem seguir no piloto automtico. Alm disso, as liberdades histricas tomadas pelo roteiro so absurdas demais para poderem ser ignoradas.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 10, 2008

The falling blade is the only element not missing the mark in this film. I wanted to call for the beheading after Act One, and spare the audience instead.

Full Review | Original Score: .5/5 | Jun 21, 2008