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18 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleDirector Le-Van Kiet and screenwriters Ben Lustig and Jake Thornton succeed by making the action look real, by coming up with intriguing plot twists and keeping our heroine in danger at all times.
- 74Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpPaste MagazineAndrew CrumpBackstory is fine. Seeing King introduce scores of anonymous leering henchmen to their varying deaths is better.
- 70Los Angeles TimesMichael OrdoñaLos Angeles TimesMichael OrdoñaThe Princess is an unabashedly feminist action-adventure in which the central character rises from her dormancy to slash the patriarchy. It couldn’t be more timely, and it’s a good time too.
- 60The New York TimesAmy NicholsonThe New York TimesAmy NicholsonThe high-aggro guitar score is a misstep, but a panting, battered King is credible and compelling as she kicks, stabs and screams for the right to choose her own destiny.
- 50VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeA smarter script would’ve found ways to work a historical critique (or some “Shrek”-like satire, at least) into its relatively brainless string of set pieces.
- 50RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoRogerEbert.comBrian TallericoThe action here, directed by Le-Van Kiet, is reasonably entertaining, but everything that’s hung on that skeleton feels remarkably thin.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeThe Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeThrowing a woman in front of the camera and a few feminist quips into the script does not make these films any less conventional, or necessarily any more empowering.
- 25The A.V. ClubBrent SimonThe A.V. ClubBrent SimonA yawningly simplistic and roundly inconsequential action movie, The Princess lacks, on a narrative level, the certitude and clarity of purpose of its title character.
- 25IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichHulu’s dull and exasperatingly basic “The Princess” wastes a slew of talent on a straight-to-streaming cheapo so undercooked that it feels like an AMC psy-op designed to make you run to the nearest multiplex and beg for a ticket to whatever’s showing next.
- 4TheWrapLena WilsonTheWrapLena WilsonThe Princess somehow manages to be both under-written and insultingly obvious.