Diana

This Princess Di biopic swerves past the pitfall of tastelessness only to risk a more perilous roadblock: dullness.

Watts and Andrews have no chemistry together whatsoever. But in all fairness, probably no actor could convincingly play lines like "I love when you...

Diana presents the tragic title princess not as a flesh-and-blood woman but as two-thirds of an Oz quest: she’s a figure of heart a...

Fails to offer much insight into the long-term relationship that, as the movie argues, helped her turn the corner after the dissolution of her marr...

This is a TV movie all the way, in the pre-HBO network shlock sense of the term.

One wants to say "too soon," but 150 years would be too soon for Oliver Hirschbiegel’s close-to-comedic treatment of the princess...

Lacks any insight into the characters involved, and surely would have the late Princess of Wales rolling in her grave.

It’s a poor show when a biopic can offer little to recommend its subject beyond her fame.

Too stupefyingly dull to compete with Mommie Dearest on the midnight movie circuit.

Not a lot different from whatever movie Katherine Heigl has made lately.

This visually polished, Oscar-baiting docudrama chronicles her final two years, and even in death she’s a subject of invasive speculation.

"Diana" can be declared a success in one regard – its vacant inanity serves to remind us of the perpetual indignities forced upon this un...

Royal with cheese.

It’s hardly fascinating. It doesn’t offer new facts about the Princess’s life. And it certainly doesn’t explain her complex...

Diana might have been flawed and scheming and love-starved, but this film doesn’t help explain that. Nor does it illuminate the common touch...

The movie may not be great, but for some it will be a fine guilty pleasure.

Carries with it the whiff of Harlequin, the mouldy and tired air of a cottage paperback left on the dock.

There’s a germ of a smart biopic in Diana; the problem is that it’s tucked away behind a clunky structure and even clunkier dialogue.

Neither as dreadful as some would claim nor as poignant as it would like to be, Diana skirts the surface of a complex figure while trying to k...

An excruciatingly well-intentioned, reverential and sentimental biopic about her troubled final years, laced with bizarre cardboard dialogue - ...

Why, oh why, oh why? Oh. Why?

Despite the lackluster romance and the peculiarities of the casting, the subject of Diana’s last years is so inherently compelling that the m...

Stephen Jeffreys' script-based on the book "Diana: Her Last Love" by Kate Snell-is simply awful.

Although [Watts] assiduously imitates Diana’s walk and cadences, her martyred-saint sideways and upwards looks, she just never seems mad or p...

Yes, Diana is the poor little rich girl, but the opulent settings, private jets, yachts, and chauffeured cars prove peculiar and distracting affect...

[Hirschbiegel] nicely conveys an intimate restlessness, only to blow the mood with ominous tidings.

The film can’t find the woman beneath the faade, despite Watts' best efforts. Maybe she didn’t exist. Or maybe there’s a bet...

Watts employs a number of iconic head tilts, hairdos and stick-on noses, but fights a losing battle against a film which has neither back...

A special class of awful – too frivolous for offence, too epically miscalculated to add to our understanding. On the plus side, it’s hys...

Tries to humanize its leading lady, but it only embarrasses her (and us) in the process. Diana deserves so much more than this.

Wisely, Diana opts to tell only part of Diana’s story…Unfortunately, it doesn’t find much of interest in those years.

Sixteen years after her death, Princess Diana is still capable of generating interest, which is probably the only reason why this dull, pointless m...