It is a story fit for the second Elizabeth, though it has perhaps one minor fault: the first two hours.
– ,
TIME Magazine,
23 Mar 2011
rotten:
It's about what you'd expect -- slow, dry, fleetingly intelligent.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
One of those almost unbearably classy movies, like A Man for All Seasons and Becket, that have a way of elevating the reputations of moviemakers without doing much for the art.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
9 May 2005
rotten:
Interminable plod through the story of Henry the Eighth and Anne Boleyn.
– Tom Milne,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
Anne of the Thousand Days is a stunning-acted, sumptuous, grand-scale widescreen drama of the royal bed chamber and political intrigues that created the Church of England.