The Princess
Hulu | Release Date (Streaming): July 1, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
6
Negative:
5
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
ConsequenceJesse HassengerJul 1, 2022
What makes The Princess so surprisingly fun is its commitment to a hooky premise. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJul 1, 2022
Director Le-Van Kiet and screenwriters Ben Lustig and Jake Thornton succeed by making the action look real, by coming up with intriguing plot twists and keeping our heroine in danger at all times. Read full review
74
Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpJul 1, 2022
Backstory is fine. Seeing King introduce scores of anonymous leering henchmen to their varying deaths is better. Read full review
70
PolygonPetrana RadulovicJul 1, 2022
From action director Le-Van Kiet, The Princess plays into well-worn genre subversions, but actually sees those subversions through for a satisfying effect. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesMichael OrdoñaJul 1, 2022
The Princess is an unabashedly feminist action-adventure in which the central character rises from her dormancy to slash the patriarchy. It couldn’t be more timely, and it’s a good time too. Read full review
63
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottJul 5, 2022
For all of the faults one can find with Kiet’s film, she’s also exactly the kind of hero many American women probably need right now. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreJul 1, 2022
It’s all eye-rolling, laugh-out-loud action nonsense, and often damned entertaining, another highlight of King’s ever-lengthening highlight reel of a career. Read full review
60
We Got This CoveredScott CampbellJul 1, 2022
The Princess fully embraces its outlandishness to deliver a cheesy, violent, R-rated fantasy actioner that's destined to ensure as a camp cult favorite. Read full review
60
The New York TimesAmy NicholsonJul 1, 2022
The high-aggro guitar score is a misstep, but a panting, battered King is credible and compelling as she kicks, stabs and screams for the right to choose her own destiny. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoJul 1, 2022
The action here, directed by Le-Van Kiet, is reasonably entertaining, but everything that’s hung on that skeleton feels remarkably thin. Read full review
50
VarietyPeter DebrugeJul 1, 2022
A smarter script would’ve found ways to work a historical critique (or some “Shrek”-like satire, at least) into its relatively brainless string of set pieces. Read full review
40
CNNBrian LowryJul 1, 2022
For anyone wondering why "The Princess" is premiering on Hulu in the US, not sister service Disney+, the movie answers that in the first five minutes, when the title character brutally dispatches a pair of guards sent into the tower where she's being held. While the timing seems right for a princess who rescues herself, there's precious little substance to this violent fantasy, featuring Joey King figuratively letting down her hair. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeJul 1, 2022
Throwing a woman in front of the camera and a few feminist quips into the script does not make these films any less conventional, or necessarily any more empowering. Read full review
33
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattJul 8, 2022
King is an engaging actress to watch, if she only had an actual backstory, but the movie is so relentlessly romp-y and blood-splattered it quickly becomes numbing. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubBrent SimonJul 1, 2022
A yawningly simplistic and roundly inconsequential action movie, The Princess lacks, on a narrative level, the certitude and clarity of purpose of its title character. Read full review
25
IndieWireDavid EhrlichJul 1, 2022
Hulu’s dull and exasperatingly basic “The Princess” wastes a slew of talent on a straight-to-streaming cheapo so undercooked that it feels like an AMC psy-op designed to make you run to the nearest multiplex and beg for a ticket to whatever’s showing next. Read full review
20
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreJul 6, 2022
Its empty girl power aesthetic has the quality of an intrusive thought. Like something out of a time capsule cracked open too early, The Princess is an artifact of girlboss feminism that retains no resonance, but that’s also not distant enough to have curiosity value. Read full review
4
TheWrapLena WilsonJul 1, 2022
The Princess somehow manages to be both under-written and insultingly obvious. Read full review
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