Despite its intimations of authenticity, "Lady Caroline Lamb" is less fact than fiction.... This would be perfectly acceptable if it weren't that the story Bolt tells is so much less fascinating than the story he ignores, and if he were able to give his story some form beyond the rhetoric of theatrical phrase-making that reduces the text of the movie to an endless succession of curtain lines.... "Lady Caroline Lamb" is to cinema what the coffee-table book is to literature: a heavy but insubstantial irrelevancy.

Wretched filmization of famous story: wife of English politician scandalizes everyone by her open affair with Lord Byron. Bolt's banal script is often unintentionally funny.