Damsel
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): March 8, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
46
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Mixed or average reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
14
Negative:
6
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60
The GuardianBenjamin LeeMar 8, 2024
If Damsel doesn’t exactly rewrite the storybook, it makes for a competent rework of it, a rousing revenge saga that provides a thin yet encouraging message for its younger female audience and a balm for those older viewers who grew up being spoon-fed the same old gendered cliches. Read full review
60
The Daily BeastNick SchagerMar 7, 2024
Has its heart in the right place but little else, starting out competently and then slowly falling apart with each clumsy step along its "Game of Thrones"-lite path. Read full review
60
Rolling StoneDavid FearMar 7, 2024
It’s a movie that works a lot better when it sticks to its star running, jumping, dodging, ducking and, eventually, fighting back. That’s more of a comfort zone for Spanish filmmaker Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, who specializes in horror films that involve pursuit and tight spots (28 Weeks Later, Intruders). Read full review
60
Total FilmKevin HarleyMar 7, 2024
Brown and the beast strike sparks as Fresnadillo’s initially lukewarm adventure gradually heats up. Read full review
58
IndieWireKate ErblandMar 7, 2024
What follows is misdirection, flashbacks, visions, and wooden dialogue. At least the action is good, and Brown is game as ever. Read full review
50
We Got This CoveredFrancisca TinocoMar 11, 2024
There are sporadic sparks of magic in 'Damsel', especially when it's navigating its better-fitting element of action fantasy rather than fairytale. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreMar 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
50
ObserverEmily ZemlerMar 7, 2024
The film, written by Dan Mazeau and directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, is well-intentioned in its thematic arc, but its execution falters. Read full review
50
The New York TimesAlissa WilkinsonMar 7, 2024
Damsel is evidence that studios still don’t realize that a “strong female lead” is not enough to make a movie good. More is required: a strong set of supporting characters, a strong plot, a strong sense of what makes a movie interesting to an audience. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeMar 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
50
ColliderMaggie LovittMar 7, 2024
Rather than embracing the more nuanced themes, the film shies away from deeper introspection. Read full review
40
EmpireDavid OpieMar 8, 2024
Too childish and shallow for adults, yet too brutal and gory for kids, this is one Damsel that really does need saving, after all. Read full review
40
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyMar 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
40
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonMar 7, 2024
Ms. Brown, who first came to our attention in “Stranger Things,” and for good reason, is surrounded by a cast that may have lost a bet. Read full review
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