A hoot.

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

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

| Original Score: C | Feb 18, 2012

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

If the late Aaron Spelling had lived long enough to produce Showtime's The Tudors, the result might have been something like The Other Boleyn Girl...

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 1, 2008

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 7, 2008

Ultimately we are meant to eat chocolates, admire their trembling lower lips, and choose sides.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 7, 2008

Ravishing frocks and heaving bosoms are the main constituents of The Other Boleyn Girl, an entertaining bodice ripper lightly disguised as historical fiction.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 7, 2008

Why in the name of ermine boleros would anyone make such a dull, coy and, worst of all, pretty film about Anne Boleyn?

| Original Score: 2/6 | Mar 7, 2008

A rather titillating take on a racy historical novel, this is perhaps too ambitious in intent. More time, or more pruning (perhaps they should just have focused on The Boleyn girl), would have produced a richer and more enjoyable film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 7, 2008

I think the performances are really good.

Full Review | Mar 3, 2008

Only in a movie this poorly made could a decapitation be dull.

| Feb 29, 2008

[An] oversimplified, overheated mediocre melodrama.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 29, 2008

[A] vulgarized portrayal of the Tudor court.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 29, 2008

After covering much of its ground at a stylish canter, The Other Boleyn Girl finishes at a plod.

| Feb 29, 2008

The Other Boleyn Girl is an agreeable piece of filmmaking, carefully and sometimes artfully balancing solemnity with fluff.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 29, 2008

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.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 29, 2008

However embarrassed you might feel in the morning, this in an enjoyable movie with an entertaining angle on a hard-to-resist period of history.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 29, 2008

A genteel soap opera in which the sex and intrigue are so muted, so tasteful, that they practically blow off the screen in a scattering of dust.

| Feb 29, 2008