3.0
out of 100
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A classy romantic cocktail distinguished by its tart yet breezy bite.
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A sexy, good-looking political bodice-ripper with an almost flawless cast at the top of its game.
Shot in high definition and filmed at many historic locations, the film somehow still lacks the splendor of an epic, and its urgency to get on with the next plot point leaves much unexplained while context goes out the window.
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.
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.
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?"
After covering much of its ground at a stylish canter, The Other Boleyn Girl finishes at a plod.
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Bosoms heave, bodices rip … it ain't history.
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