The costume drama The Other Boleyn Girl is receiving generally A's for effort, but mediocre grades for everything else. "It's a marvel that something that feels so inert should have so much frenetic action," writes Manohla Dargis in the New York Times. Kenneth Turan sums up in the Los Angeles Times:, "Initially The Other Boleyn Girl is good, genteelly trashy fun but it eventually reaches for dramaturgy that's out of its league." And Elizabeth Weitzman in the New York Daily News comments that by the time the film reaches its climax, it has also " reached such a pitch of neurotic hysteria you can't help but laugh." A few critics are less harsh. Mick Lasalle in the San Francisco Chronicle remarks, "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." He also writes that Natalie Portman's performance, "which shows a range and depth unlike anything she's done before, is the No. 1 element that tips The Other Boleyn Girl in the direction of a recommendation."
29/02/2008
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