The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) Critic Reviews

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 the full review

For a movie whose story hinges almost entirely on sex, The Other Boleyn Girl is disappointingly demure.Read the full review

A sexy, good-looking political bodice-ripper with an almost flawless cast at the top of its game.Read the full review

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 the full review

The result is an entertainingly sudsy trip through early 16th century English history.Read the full review

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

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 the full review

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 the full review

An enjoyable movie with an entertaining angle on a hard-to-resist period of history.Read the full review