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21 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91IndieWireKate ErblandIndieWireKate ErblandWithout the influx of talking heads and other bits of opinion and information, the audience is forced to confront their own judgements. ... The effect is ingenious and chilling.
- 80Film ThreatSabina Dana PlasseFilm ThreatSabina Dana PlassePerkins brings an entirely new perspective to her life and the events that lead to her untimely death.
- 80VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanA perfectly timed, compulsively watchable once-over-lightly documentary. ... After all [the recent] dramatic treatments, it’s galvanizing to see the real story laid out exactly as it happened — or, more precisely, as it happened and as it was presented to the public, those being, quite often, two very different things.
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawIt is captivating and agonising all over again to see how dazzling Diana was, how simple and spontaneous she was compared with both the stuffy royals but also the secular celebrity class – how she instinctively knew to work with the press when it was still essentially sympathetic, but how panicky and dysfunctional she became when this same press became boorish and predatory.
- 70Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganScreen DailyFionnuala HalliganA palpably well-made documentary if an uber-voyeuristic one, The Princess attempts an immersive approach into the life of Diana, while examining the attitude of the public to her – and the royal family – during that time.
- 70SlashfilmChris EvangelistaSlashfilmChris EvangelistaIt's a handsomely constructed, often addictive documentary – but it's also repeating the same story we've been told again and again.
- 60The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe TelegraphRobbie CollinThe Princess tells us nothing we don’t already know, but there’s bracing value in seeing it crisply spelled out.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterCaryn JamesThe Hollywood ReporterCaryn JamesA flawed little time capsule, the doc veers uneasily between kindly character portrait and shallow attempt at media studies.