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

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

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

| Original Score: C- | 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

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

Its story plays like a Hawaiian heritage lesson filtered through the melodramatic artifice of an old Hollywood costume drama.

| May 20, 2010

In production values, the film is flawless. But it plays too sedately, moves too slowly and contemplates the occupation of a sovereign kingdom with a curious impassivity.

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

At times it's the sort of ridiculously anachronistic period film in which historical characters act like 21st-century teenagers who happen to be wearing hoop skirts.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 14, 2010

The landscapes are exotic and Kilcher is erotic, but the film plays like a generic made-for-온라인카지노추천 biopic.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 14, 2010

The film is too reverently drawn and self-consciously played to muster any real momentum.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 13, 2010

For all its strong points, the picture sometimes plays like the condensation of a miniseries.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 13, 2010

A major problem with trying to make a romantic drama out of the history of Hawaii's Princess Ka'iulani is that she died young, with relatively little chance for romance or drama.

| Original Score: C- | May 13, 2010

A prosaic plod, with events, dates and characters sloppily composited to fit into a two-hour feature.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 12, 2010

Princess Kaiulani is no The New World.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 9, 2010