The Other Boleyn Girl

  • 2008


MOVIE IS historical distasteful ridiculous serious terrific
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49 %
43 % Rotten
$ 78 Million
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Positive Reviews 30
Negative reviews 17
Average Rating 2.9/5
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1.5
The film looks terrific, all Vermeer style light/dark interplay and sleek design. Av Club
4.5
Sofia Coppolas Marie Antoinette exploited similar pseudo historical parallels to ultralouche effect and very nearly succumbed to a terminal case of co .. Austin Chronicle
1.7
Why in the name of ermine boleros would anyone make such a dull, coy and, worst of all, pretty film about Anne Boleyn.Writer Peter Morgan (The Queen, .. Time Out
3.1
Sure, its a genre movie, but that doesnt mean it confines itself to one genre. Rogerebert
1.0
Of course, debuting director Justin Chadwick doesnt do the screenplay many favors eitherhe keeps alternating between making a sweeping historical epic .. E Film Critic
2.5
Ultimately its a clumsy film with performances ranging all over the place and a story that while well constructed, just isnt that compelling.Its a bli .. Cinema Blend
2.5
A stay in France has taught her the art of manipulation, and she shrewdly refuses Henrys advances. Ny Daily News
3.1
Still, despite the lushness of the landscapes, the leading ladies and their voluminous, jewel toned gowns, The Other Boleyn Girl feels less like an ep .. Philly
3.1
But its a terrific showcase for battling Boleyn babes Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman. Tv Guide
1.3
Director Justin Chadwick... seems to have suddenly woken up behind the camera, with no idea of how he got there or what kind of film this is. Combust Ible Celluloid
2.5
CLIP: Get in on the intrigue of The Other Boleyn Girl Its not that a good production cant be both a thrilling tale of historical intrigue and sensual .. Usa Today
2.5
The drama is almost as far over the top as a Monty Python comedy and the romance is understated. Lariat
2.2
The Other Boleyn Girl pretends to be a serious historical romance, but its really just a bodice ripper, a cheap Harlequin paperback dressed up in fril .. Eric Ds Nider
2.0
The script bristles with 21st century terms that fit the characters as poorly as the costumes fit the actors, and the whole thing has the aura of a pe .. News Review
3.0
And as the story turns increasingly gloomy and grim, it begins to feel more like a sanitised educational film than the blood and guts romance it shoul .. Shadows On The Wall
3.5
Its more like a lushly produced catfight.This has its pleasures, to be sure, but for it to really take off, youd need cats with sharper claws than the .. Cs Monitor
5.0
But the film is, withal, a highly absorbing rendition of an endlessly fascinating tale which nearly effaces the definitive treatment of it, the 1969 A .. Film Journal
1.9
The Other Boleyn Girl is the kind of potted historical drama thats not good enough to take seriously and, sadly, not bad enough to be any fun. Boston
2.0
Its stupefyingly bad drama of the kind that makes you really appreciate the visual panache and scenery chewing bombast of last years Elizabeth: The Go .. Mountain X
2.8
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3.5
The latest incarnation of the saga, The Other Boleyn Girl, is a classy romantic cocktail distinguished by its tart yet breezy bite. Ew
5.0
I just wish that those costumes, however stunning, spent more time crumpled on boudoir floors. Slate
3.0
Gregorys novel is hardly a masterpiece its more Catherine Cookson than Robert Graves but it carries its tale through a full and varied world that is m .. Empire
3.8
For most of us, the spectacle of disaster is just too compelling to look away. Sf Gate
4.0
It might sound tacky, but in truth The Other Boleyn Girl is shamelessly good fun, a chocolate truffle of a movie designed to appeal to the overseas he .. Bbc
3.5
After the deadly violence surrounding last years white nationalist rally, some critics have said the city has yet to reconcile with its racist past an .. Washington Post
3.1
This emotionally ripe angle to a tragic story that could have been told any number of ways is where the film gets its potency. The Movie Boy
2.2
Hopefully strong direction will make something of it but my hopes are hardly high. Reeling Reviews
4.5
Whatever youre looking for in a movie to let you escape from reality into a fantasy of intrigue and romance. Flickfilosopher
2.5
Showtimes series The Tudors, which covers much of the same ground, features plenty of nudity and piles on the soap opera antics; it may be bad, but it .. Las Vegas Weekly
3.8
Unsentimental, non glamorized, and unclouded by the usual overlay of rose colored nostalgia, this is a raw but rewarding motion picture. ReelViews
3.8
This years entry in the genre, The Other Boleyn Girl, is one of the best: not much of a visual epic maybe, but an absorbing, exciting costume drama th .. Seattle Pi
2.5
Now comes TV director Justin Chadwick and screenwriter Peter Morgans adaptation of Philippa Gregorys brilliant novel of the same name, a book so good .. Tony Medley
2.5
In the end, The Other Boleyn Girl comes off as more distasteful and dishonest than trashily entertaining. Groucho Reviews
3.0
However, this deficit in my history education has made me greatly appreciate a good costume drama. 7M Pictures
2.5
We can be sure they didnt speak like us.Its a historic trade off. The Star
1.8
The Other Boleyn Girl plays like an unofficial prequel to those loopy Cate Blanchett Elizabeth movies.It tells the story of Elizabeths mom, Anne Boley .. Oregon Live
4.0
Beautifully designed and superbly shot on HD, the film is blessed with a marvellous and tasteful orchestral score. Urban Cine File
4.0
Certain fortune is theirs if they take advantage of this as yet unspoken for beauty. Varia Gate
1.9
ITS pretty hard to make a dull movie about Henry VIII and his complicated love life, but The Other Boleyn Girl, a failed Oscar contender, man ages to .. New York Post
3.5
But overall, this well crafted historical drama is a treat for Tudor history fans and everyone else who appreciates a lusty tale. Cleve Land
3.8
A cautionary tale of what unchecked ambition and lust can do to a person, a family, a nation. Christianity Today
4.5
Like being ordered to have long hair and smile on stage, but wondering how to smile with a trombone in your mouth.Or repeatedly told youre not good en .. News Blaze
1.3
Nowadays, in a film, whenever you see children running through wheat fields giggling, you know things arent going to end well for them.Thats how this .. Ross Anthony
1.3
The cast desperately tries to play it straight, take it seriously and believe in the material, but the movie is too cold, stiff and ridiculous for the .. Waffle Movies
2.0
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2.5
Its unusually stagy for a period film, cramping a fine assemblage of actors into tight, low light huddles of erotic and political coupling.At first, a .. Chron
3.0
It is ridiculous, but imagined with humour and gusto: a very diverting gallop through the heritage landscape. Film Guardian
1.3
The only satisfying distinction between the two performances is that this time shes executed for it. Mercury News
3.8
Chambers gets back on the horse with a satisfying package of treachery for the final reel (even stretching to the possibilities of incest), and a comf .. Dvd Talk
1.5
Its always funny when such seamy melodrama thrusts its heaving bosom in our faces and demands serious emotional responses from us. Flip Side Archive
2.5
Its a resplendent surface, though, and the lines have a satisfying snap. Ny Mag
2.5
I hope Ive at least gotten good enough at my job to recognize when it has done well for those fans though.You Like Can Mag
2.2
The screenwriter didnt leave enough narrative meat on the bone to make the story work. Film Critic 1963 Typepad
4.0
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3.9
Everyone in the movie is pretty with bleached teeth even the executioners blade whistles as it works. Ar Kansas Online
3.1
It desperately needs a dose of sass.And it had it right there in the book. Sea Coast Online
3.0
The condensed history of the script is inoffensive enough for Tudor buffs to enjoy and is entertaining in any measure.Its the performances and unlikel .. Mighty Ganesha



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