The Princess is a well executed documentary that tackles the tragedy of Diana Spencer. It shines a light on the beauty she brought into the world, as well as the beauty she ultimately left in her wake.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 26, 2023

This documentary film is a remarkable glimpse of the relationship between the subject, the media, and their audience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 2, 2023

The style keeps us from seeing the humanity, which is by design and still limiting.

| Sep 20, 2022

There's no historical revelation to the narrative, but its construction possesses a quiet, eerie grace. The sense of inevitability – of our own role in manifesting these images – only makes it more haunting.

| Sep 14, 2022

Perkins plays with the narrative and instead of focusing on Princess Diana, he centers on the press and how it was obsessed with her, registering every single step she took. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 1, 2022

An addictive endeavor that shows in all its (sick) dimensions what it means to bear the weight of fame. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 31, 2022

The true chronicle of a tragedy, poignant.

| Aug 30, 2022

A miracle of editing...

| Aug 25, 2022

For a film that thrusts viewers into the middle of a narrative, one never is lost as to where we are in time and what Diana is doing.

| Original Score: B | Aug 25, 2022

A serious documentary, not royal-baiting frippery. It approaches Diana not as an effervescing work of cultural and emotional whimsy but a historical figure, a living, breathing woman.

| Aug 25, 2022

At once a familiar scrapbook of images and film, and a commentary-free analysis of the complex dance of Princess Diana, the media, royal family, and public.

| Aug 24, 2022

While well-edited, the collection of clips with no context or narration ends up seeming pointless, and rather hypocritical.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 19, 2022

“The Princess” is absorbing and surprisingly intimate, given the sources Perkins used. But it’s also a cautionary tale, which lets no one off the hook.

| Aug 19, 2022

So after over 40 years in the limelight, is there anything left to say about Diana? Perhaps not, if The Princess is anything to go on.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 18, 2022

Ed Perkins' The Princess treads new ground by letting the images of Diana steer the storytelling.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 17, 2022

Cannily assembled, without adding hugely to our understanding of its subject.

| Aug 15, 2022

Perkins’ thesis is not just that fame is hell but that fame on the rarified level that his subject experienced it is a kind of daily living death. What the film never solves is who Diana Spencer may have been to herself.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 15, 2022

Displays a fine eye for oblique, jarring, mischievous moments where the curtain lifts and we see the machine whir and splutter.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 15, 2022

The Princess doesn't really introduce anything new to the conversation but rather deftly filters it through the harsh gaze of the cameras as they clicked away -- and clicked and clicked some more -- while Diana was alive.

| Aug 15, 2022

Any intriguing intentions are lost in this rushed execution. It is a work that is so caught up in the noise that it drowns out the moments of the profound silence that could have spoken to something more.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 15, 2022