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Diana
U/A (INDIA)
2013
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Diana
Positive Reviews
10
Negative reviews
55
Average Rating
1.8
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2.5
Its a strong dynamic to build a film on, but Diana mismanages it.
Av Club
2.0
Diana is a film about a royal subject that is not given a royal treatment.From the pen of first time screenwriter Stephen Jeffreys, it is a flat rendi ..
We Got This Covered
1.5
Ultimately, it is as though this is a Disney film The Princess and the Doctor not a real life biopic.
Austin Chronicle
1.0
Naomi Watts reckons that Diana gave her permission from beyond the grave to make this film about the final years of her life.She might be better readi ..
Time Out
3.0
A little distance is going to be required hereand not just to accommodate Naomi Wattss prosthetically widened nose.Theres also the gap between what ha ..
Time Out
2.0
Theres something to be said for a tasteful, muted filmbut this movie is simply tame.
Paste Magazine
1.3
Stephen Jeffreys script based on the book Diana: Her Last Love by Kate Snell is simply awful.
Rogerebert
3.0
The leaden tale is marred by choppy plotting and stilted, (and at times almost hilariously) on the nose dialogue.
IGN
2.0
Its hardly fascinating. It doesnt offer new facts about the Princesss life. And it certainly doesnt explain her complexity or contradictions.
Telegraph
1.0
Faced with conspicuously poor dialogue in the average script, most directors and actors might seek to disguise the shoddiness of what theyve been give ..
Telegraph
1.0
Some interesting details pad out their pallid relationship, though many feel suspicious at best.
Ny Daily News
1.5
DIANA doesnt seem worthy of his talents, nor those of his stars Watts and Andrews.DIANA really is a movie thats best forgotten.
JoBlo
2.5
Its too bad, because a German director would seem free to explore Dianas story in a way that English filmmakers might not.(Remember that it took an Am ..
The Globe And Mail
2.5
Indeed, it could be a guilty pleasure if you have a thing for bombs.
Philly
1.5
This Diana Princess of Wales Biopic tells the story of Dianas final two years, before her death in Paris in 1997.
Blu Ray
2.0
The conjecture effectively ruins the films chances at having any cultural or historic significance.
Chicago Reader
1.3
Theres nothing of particular interest in the story Jeffreys chooses to tellthat of Dianas supposed final love affair with a talented but conflicted he ..
Mark Reviews Movies
1.9
But it feels like empty, glossy hagiography crossed with a Harlequin romance.
Usa Today
2.0
Evidently, Hirschbiegel and Watts are wary of probing too deeply into the mindset of the woman who aspired to be a Queen of peoples hearts, making the ..
Radio Times
2.5
Theres a clever theme to this film thats never allowed to emerge properly, as the script continually slips into romanticised melodrama.
Shadows On The Wall
2.0
Diana puts on a long brunette wig and enjoys a night on Old Compton St!), but the script is frustratingly reductive overall and barely scratches the s ..
View London
1.3
Its a great story, a fantastic story and apparently a true story.
News Day
2.0
Neither as good as its pedigree suggests (director and star both have weighty credentials) nor quite as terrible as its detractors insist, this stodgy ..
The Guardian
1.0
And despite some nods to that manipulative reputation, there is nothing to show the grown up wit and charm which entranced many.
The Guardian
2.0
Im not certain whether Snells book was one of those bodice ripper type reads you find in your better airport bookstores, but if not, it should have be ..
Az Central
2.0
Despite the critical mauling it has received in the UK, Oliver Hirschbiegels sugar soaked account of the forbidden romance between Diana Princess of W ..
Smh
3.5
It may not be anything all that special, but its harmless, well made and entertaining on its own terms.
Mountain X
1.0
It has the slightness of a Mills & Boon novella, but treats the tale with ponderous solemnity, as though it were chronicling a meeting of minds betwee ..
Daily Mail
1.0
But its also something of a travesty that the life of one of modern historys most fascinating and complex women has been reduced to a laughing stock.
Flim List
1.0
The person one feels truly sorry for is Dr. Khan, evidently a very private man, whose worst nightmare this film must be.
Empire
2.5
In Diana, it is absolutely essential that the love affair come across as deep and passionate, and that were made to wish that things had turned out di ..
Sf Gate
2.5
Diana is a superficial, fairly mindless account of the once secret torrid affair between the worlds most famous woman and Pakistani heart surgeon Hasn ..
Boston Herald
0.6
Many of the recent string of micro biopics have hypocritically given audiences the spectacle of larger than life figures brought down to earth and hum ..
Slant Magazine
1.3
Is it possible to make a movie both histrionic and dull.Diana manages the feat.
Washington Post
3.5
nicely conveys an intimate restlessness, only to blow the mood with ominous tidings.
The New York Times
2.5
A cutaway reveals an initialed pocketbook on a chair, but its never taken.
Reeling Reviews
2.0
As a big fan of good storytelling, I absolutely am cheesed off that Diana cannot seem to decide what its aiming to do with the final few years of her ..
Flickfilosopher
1.0
Too stupefyingly dull to compete with Mommie Dearest on the midnight movie circuit.
The Irish Times
1.2
And its a crucial mistake because without the context and texture of the time, the seams and flaws of Jeffreys script are exposed for just how truly w ..
Blogs Indie Wire
1.0
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Total Film
1.9
What the film gives us is about 90 minutes of romance between Diana and heart surgeon Hasnat Khan (Naveen Andrews).
ReelViews
2.0
Halfway between a guilty pleasure and a missed opportunity, it makes the crucial mistake of treating curious viewers like deferential subjects, demand ..
Hollywood Reporter
2.0
Its a big statement but the rest of the movie proves a lot less arty.
Standard
4.0
Oliver Hirschbiegels film focuses on Dianas romance with Dr Hasnat Khan.It is a dramatic interpretation of that love story and should be taken as such ..
Standard
4.0
Flawed yet intimate, Diana respects its subjects hopes, strengths, weaknesses and legacy and, in the extraordinary Watts, boasts a formidably empathet ..
Los Angeles Times
2.0
But the facts of the case hardly deliver the story beats ideally required by a romantic drama.
Variety
1.3
But the inspiration is sadly lacking and the dialogue is often risible.
The Star
2.0
Its too harsh and too exact, too banal.It allows boredom to take root, disengaging us.
Urban Cine File
2.8
Diana is a Lifetime movie in sensible pumps, at once too silly to be taken seriously yet so self serious it rarely allows us to giggle.
La Weekly
1.0
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Mirror
2.0
At this point the script take a hard right turn into the less than fruitful dramatic pastures of Dianas affair with heart surgeon Hasnat Khan (Naveen ..
Digital Spy
1.3
Watts and Andrews have no chemistry together whatsoever. But in all fairness, probably no actor could convincingly play lines like I love when you tou ..
New York Post
2.0
Its slick and well produced, with an eye for authenticity, especially when it comes to wardrobe.
Nz Herald
1.0
A really bad film can be a glorious thing.When early reactions started emanating about Diana, the possibility that it could be a camp disaster on the ..
Flicks
1.9
I gagged when the doctor compares the improvisational nature of jazz to life, saying, You improvise all the time; if you can improvise, youll like jaz ..
Red Eye Chicago
2.5
While this odd biopic is a real mess, its not quite the cinematic disaster snootier critics claim it is.
Contact Music
2.8
Unfortunately, it gets worse.Diana is portrayed as a deeply insecure individual.
The Film Pie
2.5
Things get better as the movie progresses and Watts and Andrews enter into a kind of romantic groove, but how much youll enjoy this is how much you be ..
Punch Drunk Critics
2.0
A romance for the ages it is not.Not that its without some unusual elements.
The Dissolve
1.9
The movie may not be great, but for some it will be a fine guilty pleasure.
Mercury News
2.0
Were left with a movie that wants to paint a nuanced psychological portrait of Diana but lacks the wherewithal to do so.
The Ooh Tray
1.5
His overbearing direction incites laughter more often than the intended tears.
Streaming Quickflix
1.9
And even with the passage of time, the tearful aftermath of flowers, grief and the cortege to Althorp is sad, whether shown as a re creation or with f ..
Denver Post
1.0
Its a poor show when a biopic can offer little to recommend its subject beyond her fame.
New States Man
1.0
But the men behind this insipid film have done something far worse than airing dirty linen theyve made Diana boring.
Daily Star
2.0
If I didnt know John Hughes was dead I would have sworn he had written this film.
Media Mikes
3.1
And dismiss it as worthy of a Lifetime Original Movie if you want, this film from the director of the Fuhrer bunker drama Downfall gives us insights i ..
Wp Me
2.0
Synopsis Oscar nominated actress Naomi Watts plays the Queen of Hearts in this portrait of Princess Diana during the last two years of her life.
Sky
1.5
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Richard Roeper
1.5
By the time Diana goes gay clubbing to the sounds of the Pet Shop Boys West End Girls I began assuming the filmmakers actively hated their subject.
The Film Experience
2.5
Its a romance made in Hallmark heaven.Its a romance made in Hallmark heaven They start dating, but the pressures are immense.
O Canada
3.0
Take two features subtle differences to the first and its here that the film might finally have burst into dramatic life if it would not have been the ..
Birmingham Mail
1.0
It will be an awful shame if future generations look to this and wonder what all the fuss was about regarding the Princess of Wales; as presented in t ..
Screen Space(Squarespace)
1.9
But, again owing to Lees effortless juggling act, the scene works as a fun and funny set piece but a further reinforcement and development of the char ..
The Movie Report
2.0
Whether or not that is an accurate notion is beside the point; it simply doesnt make for gripping cinema.
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