40
The Hollywood Reporter by Caryn James
A flawed little time capsule, the doc veers uneasily between kindly character portrait and shallow attempt at media studies.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
70
Slashfilm by Chris Evangelista
It's a handsomely constructed, often addictive documentary – but it's also repeating the same story we've been told again and again.
70
Screen Daily by Fionnuala Halligan
A palpably well-made documentary if an uber-voyeuristic one, The Princess attempts an immersive approach into the life of Diana, while examining the attitude of the public to her – and the royal family – during that time.
75
Perkins’ approach, however, could be read more as an exercise in media study than biopic of Diana. It adds to the canon but not the lure of the mythical “People’s Princess.”
91
Without the influx of talking heads and other bits of opinion and information, the audience is forced to confront their own judgements. ... The effect is ingenious and chilling.
80
A perfectly timed, compulsively watchable once-over-lightly documentary. ... After all [the recent] dramatic treatments, it’s galvanizing to see the real story laid out exactly as it happened — or, more precisely, as it happened and as it was presented to the public, those being, quite often, two very different things.
60
The Telegraph by Robbie Collin
The Princess tells us nothing we don’t already know, but there’s bracing value in seeing it crisply spelled out.
80
Film Threat by Sabina Dana Plasse
Perkins brings an entirely new perspective to her life and the events that lead to her untimely death.