Damsel

Name: Damsel
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Released: March 8, 2024
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 46
Cast: Angela Bassett, Brooke Carter, Esther Odumade, Manon Stieglitz, Mens-Sana Tamakloe

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): March 8, 2024 | PG-13

Starring: Angela Bassett, Brooke Carter, Esther Odumade, Manon Stieglitz, Mens-Sana Tamakloe, Millie Bobby Brown, Milo Twomey, Nick Robinson, Nicole Joseph, Patrice Naiambana, Ray Winstone, Robin Wright, Saif Mohsen, Sam Sharma, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Sonya Nisa, Ulli Ackermann

Summary: A dutiful damsel agrees to marry a handsome prince, only to find the royal family has recruited her as a sacrifice to repay an ancient debt. Thrown into a cave with a fire-breathing dragon, she must rely on her wits and will to survive. [Netflix]

Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 85 min

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Tara Bennett

Mar 8, 2024

As a fantasy, Damsel convincingly transports us into the lair of a dragon that is often stunning and always intriguing. Read full review

Slashfilm BJ Colangelo

Mar 7, 2024

Damsel lives and dies by the performance of Elodie and thankfully, Millie Bobby Brown establishes herself as the new Mother of the Dragons. She expertly finds the balance between a terrified woman thrown into an unthinkable circumstance, and a fighter unwilling to give up when things get tough. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Mar 8, 2024

The film has an old-fashioned “B movie” vibe, which, for a project headed straight to Netflix, is almost exactly as it should be. As for the feminist message wrapped into the premise, it’s merely further evidence that Brown, at the ripe old age of 20, looks like a boss both on screen and off. Read full review

Lovia Gyarkye

Mar 7, 2024

Fresnadillo’s film puts on fewer airs of disruption than other versions of this story, so the narrative comes off as less self-satisfied. Still, it struggles to sustain an inspirational tenor. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Mar 8, 2024

Some of it plays, some of it doesn’t. Brown isn’t bad, although her character’s coming into her own is so preachy and self-empowering that it’s eye-rolling time. Read full review

The Independent Clarisse Loughrey

Mar 7, 2024

It’s hard to imagine what anyone could get out of Damsel that isn’t already liberally covered by Brown’s other projects. There’s a sweetness to Stranger Things’s Eleven, and a wit to Enola, that offer the actor a hell of a lot more to do than Damsel’s mean-mugging to camera. Read full review

The Telegraph Tim Robey

Mar 7, 2024

Rather than being any particular person’s bright idea for a girlboss fantasy revenge caper, this lousy romp was obviously hatched by an algorithm, and might just as well have been directed by AI. Read full review

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