So many movies are all sizzle and no steak; it's kind of refreshing, in a way, to be frustrated by all steak and no sizzle.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 20, 2020

Stephen Cone's Princess Cyd is a soft-treading beauty, warm, light and perceptive on fragile questions of feminine sexuality, gender identity and finding your place in your skin.

| Jul 20, 2020

Princess Cyd is quiet almost to the point of stillness and deeply generous. It believes women will heal each other and their communities. It hopes.

| Apr 20, 2018

As comfortable to slip into as an afternoon in the sun, as satisfying as a late-night piece of cake, Princess Cyd is a jewel of a film that plumbs thematic depths far below its surface.

| Dec 3, 2017

Sometimes the calm between these two women is realistic. But the director often cops out the second his characters get into messier emotions.

| Nov 30, 2017

Its leisurely quality-its disinterest in "pumping" things up, its focus on the small yet vivid spaces of listening, understanding, struggle, identity-is its greatest asset.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 3, 2017

Stephen Cone's Princess Cyd is distinguished by a dramatic complexity that would seem to run counter to its remarkably even-tempered tone.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 3, 2017

What might have devolved into cutesy odd-couple territory instead moves in unexpected directions, bolstered by a fundamental idealism.

| Nov 3, 2017

With great delicacy, Cone metes out details about his subjects through refined dialogue and everyday behavior; this is the sort of movie that makes you feel you've befriended the characters.

| Nov 2, 2017

Not a lot happens in Princess Cyd, but it's hard not to watch this film without feeling changed.

| Nov 2, 2017

The performances by Pinnick and Spence are clean, vivid and honestly felt, with a lot of the best work emerging nonverbally in the spaces between characters closing a gap.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 2, 2017

Princess Cyd is one of those films in which the artifice of filmmaking almost drops away and you start to feel like you know Cyd and Miranda.

| Sep 27, 2017

Anchored by complicated, smart, funny women, Princess Cyd is a rare delight of a film and a model for others to follow.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 23, 2017

Cone's film has little more than its heart in the right place.

| Jun 18, 2017

I can think of no higher compliment than that the film's warmth and generosity reminded me of the late Jonathan Demme.

| Jun 15, 2017