A classy romantic cocktail distinguished by its tart yet breezy bite.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
The result is an entertainingly sudsy trip through early 16th century English history.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
In Portman's dynamic performance you can see strength and vulnerability warring for Anne's soul. In this bedroom view of history, it's that image that sticks.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
Feels less like an epic drama about power and the power of love than an episode of a Masterpiece Theatre mini-series.Read Full Review »
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Slate: Dana Stevens
For a movie whose story hinges almost entirely on sex, The Other Boleyn Girl is disappointingly demure.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
Can't quite figure out what it wants to be.
At times it strains to be a stately period drama about 16th-century political intrigue. Then it devolves into soap opera muck and emerges as a rather tame bodice ripper.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Not content to be a mildly diverting royal bodice-ripper, it spirals out of control into the kind of overwrought dramaturgy that's out of its league.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
Even by its own standards, the movie becomes increasingly macabre and ludicrous as Anne's machinations get the better of her, and everyone, including the audience, is left feeling shattered, shaken and vaguely unclean for having participated in all this.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Manohla Dargis
Forced to compete for kingly favors, the women were soon rivals, a contest that, in its few meagerly entertaining moments, recalls the sisterly love in “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?”Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
Not good enough to take seriously and, sadly, not bad enough to be any fun.Read Full Review »
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