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28 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreWatts masters Diana’s look — the way she carried her head and used those wide, coyly expressive eyes — but is only passable at impersonating the voice.
- 60Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfWatts’s work is extraordinary, sometimes keying off the same illicit register as "Mulholland Drive"; she risks being goofy, awkward and bratty.
- 50Village VoiceAmy NicholsonVillage VoiceAmy NicholsonDiana is a Lifetime movie in sensible pumps, at once too silly to be taken seriously, yet so self-serious it rarely allows us to giggle.
- 40The TelegraphDavid GrittenThe TelegraphDavid GrittenIt’s hardly fascinating. It doesn’t offer new facts about the Princess’s life. And it certainly doesn’t explain her complexity or contradictions.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonThe Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonHalfway between a guilty pleasure and a missed opportunity, it makes the crucial mistake of treating curious viewers like deferential subjects, demanding far more sympathy than it deserves.
- 25New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickThe schmaltzy Diana is directed at a dirge-like pace by German director Oliver Hirschbiegel, whose film “Downfall’’ depicted the final days of Hitler and provided one of the Internet’s most enduring memes.
- 20The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawPoor Princess Diana. I hesitate to use the term "car crash cinema". But the awful truth is that, 16 years after that terrible day in 1997, she has died another awful death.
- 20EmpireAngie ErrigoEmpireAngie ErrigoMore terrible and tacky than one could have imagined, it will soon be forgotten and consigned to the True Movies channel to play alongside television movies about Karen Carpenter, Jayne Mansfield and Jackie Kennedy.
- 20Time Out LondonCath ClarkeTime Out LondonCath ClarkeA right royal mess.