William & Catherine: A Royal Romance
Metascore
53

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 8
  3. Negative: 2 out of 8

Critic Reviews

  1. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    Aug 24, 2011
    75
    A quick summary makes it sound schlocky, but William & Catherine is pretty slick schlock.
  2. People Weekly
    Reviewed by: Tom Gliatto
    Aug 24, 2011
    63
    This portrait of Prince William's courtship of Kate Middleton is better than April's plucky Lifetime movie. [29 Aug 2011, p.36]
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  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    Aug 29, 2011
    60
    The story of Prince William and Kate Middleton offers way too much of a Hallmark moment for the channel not to weigh in with a sentimental, heartwarming version of the year's favorite romance.
  5. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Clark Collis
    Aug 24, 2011
    58
    The sad truth--or the happy one--is that the courtship of "Wills" and Kate was a comparatively event-free affair, and director and co-writer Linda Yellen struggles to present it as anything else.
  6. Boston Herald
    Reviewed by: Mark A. Perigard
    Aug 29, 2011
    50
    The drama is swamped by the saccharine cliches.
  7. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Aug 25, 2011
    50
    In this case, being respectful comes pretty close to donning a straightjacket. Fortunately, there's enough interest in the couple to provide a built-in audience for this modestly scaled (shot in Bucharest) exercise.
  8. Slate
    Reviewed by: Troy Patterson
    Aug 29, 2011
    30
    Where the two leads are fledgling performers at the start of the careers, the actors playing their older relations have no such excuses for appearing herein.
  9. RedEye
    Reviewed by: Curt Wagner
    Aug 26, 2011
    25
    All in all, A Royal Romance offers some OK acting of a dull story.