A film that combines the beauty of the panoramic islands with epic romanticism in the style of Merchant Ivory. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 13, 2022

There's little passion, damn little fire in the belly, and what there is is wasted on a pleasant romance conjured up by the script, aimed at the My Little Pony market.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 5, 2011

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 31, 2011

After watching Princess Ka'iulani, we can barely say we learned much about this historical figure, nor even much of the history of the time.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 1, 2010

Looking more like a Hallmark Movie-of-the-Week and reading like a CliffNotes summary of the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii in the 1890s, the $9-million historical romance Princess Kaiulani won't raise any eyebrows or ruffle feathers...

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 15, 2010

There are too many swooping violins, too many trite generalizations, too few moments that throw a light on history and turn it into art.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 13, 2010

Free of insight and depth, leaving us with little sense of the weight of her accomplishments.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 6, 2010

Less biography than hagiography, and more suitable to cable 온라인카지노추천 than theatres.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 10, 2010

[Writer-director] Mark Forby tempts us with a little known history lesson of Hawaii but, instead, gives us a generic girl-power teen chick flick. That is not what I want to see.

| Original Score: D- | Jun 8, 2010

This absolutely fascinating true story is a rich, romantic and captivating movie experience.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 4, 2010

This effortlessly evocative, endlessly ennui-inducing paean to Hawaii's final princess is, ultimately, a dull, Upstairs Downstairs affair.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 4, 2010

Historically fanciful and dramatically doltish.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 27, 2010

As the doomed princess, Q'orianka Kilcher ... has imperially striking features but limited acting skills.

| Original Score: C- | May 21, 2010

It contains the kind of stultifying, anything-to-avoid-offence approach one usually only finds in biopics of dead saints or live dictators.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 21, 2010

An uneven film that, by trying to satisfy parents with political drama and older children with a love story, leaves both parties wanting.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 21, 2010

The production values are exquisite, (the) attention to detail admirable.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 21, 2010

Lacking a sense of historical and personal context.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 20, 2010

It's all soap-opera histrionics and historical hash, and the writing is the culprit.

| Original Score: C | May 20, 2010

Watching Princess Kaiulani, you're not sure whether to weep for the title character or the actress playing her.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 20, 2010

Kilcher is lovely. But sadly, Ka'iulani is a perfunctory biopic of the sort one might encounter on television during Women's History Month.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 20, 2010