Writing for "Rolling Stone", Pete Travers criticized the film for " in frustrating herks and jerks", but was more positive in his assessment of Johansson and Portman, and wrote, "What works is the combustible teaming of Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson, who give the Boleyn hotties a tough core of intelligence and wit, swinging the film's sixteenth-century protofeminist issues handily into this one.
Bila je povabljena, da se pridruži organizaciji Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences v juniju 2004.