This new take on a classic tale is a worthy addition to the long list of Cinderella adaptations.

| Apr 5, 2022

Cannon has something to say, and I do think there's value in the messages she's working overtime to impart. But the various pieces of this musical never join together in harmony.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 17, 2021

Cinderella is oddly depressing in just how forced its joviality is, and how flimsily it's executed.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 10, 2021

It's frankly galling that a princess movie is this utterly lacking in grandeur. All Cannon has delivered is a cringe-worthy eyesore that's deadly dull and intellectually shallow.

| Sep 10, 2021

Kay Cannon's misguided musical fails to convince us this oft-told tale needed to be spun again.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 4, 2021

It is less a movie than a string of TikTok clips and it made my eyes spin like pinwheels.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 3, 2021

With a narrative this asinine, even Driver crooning the opening notes to "Let's Get Loud" is hard to appreciate.

| Sep 3, 2021

Younger kids may enjoy it and adults will probably get a kick out of it, but if you are 10 or 11 this movie was made for you.

| Original Score: 7.6/10 | Sep 3, 2021

Tropes and archetypes are the engine of this film, thinly sketched characters whose development seems to have been jettisoned for endless belting

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 2, 2021

The movie mostly feels like Disney Channel fare with a pinch of Moulin Rouge, a colorful distraction lacking enough magic to fulfill dreams or wishes.

| Sep 2, 2021

If only this admirable message weren't reinforced so strenuously, and knowing laughs weren't so few and far between.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 2, 2021

It's just too bad there's a pandemic going on, because this latest reboot of a beloved fairy tale is perfect for a sing-along.

| Sep 2, 2021

A movie that is strident, sassy and silly, all at once, its long-ago-far-away aesthetic clashing purposefully with present-day lingo.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 2, 2021

A fairy tale can get snoozy as it chugs toward the climax we always knew was coming but Cannon's storytelling instincts keep this "Cinderella" lively.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 2, 2021

It will make a nice weekend watch for a lot of people, I think. But it also feels uncomfortably algorithmic, an exercise that shows that if you don't start with much of a foundation, there's only so much fancy dress you can drape all over it.

| Sep 2, 2021

Writer-director Kay Cannon has shattered Cinderella's glass slipper. And we the audience are forced to walk across the shards barefoot.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 2, 2021

Hits you over the head with Instagram-ready empowerment platitudes, while delivering a soulless capitalist fairy-tale.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 2, 2021

Everything in Cinderella, admirable as its message may be, is soulless -- and that robs it of any joy.

| Sep 2, 2021

It rollicks along with a lot of help from the songs, which lift the spirits as well as lending pace to the plot but the insistence of the message-making means Cinderella and her Prince fall short of making magic together.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 2, 2021

While Cannon's creative approach and jukebox musical style point to an elegant redesign of this most familiar of garments, her execution puts quite a few tears in the fabric.

| Sep 1, 2021