...if conflict is what you want to avoid, I admire that, and Jessie Pinnick makes it real when it counts...

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 1, 2024

A sensitive indie that still induces laughs, Princess Cyd is an underrated gem well worth your time.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2022

Episode Three: The Princesses, The Captain, The Fixer, & The Guns

Full Review | Original Score: 60/100 | Aug 22, 2021

Cyd's summer is more about exploration than catching up on the latest bestsellers. The film examines Cyd's sexual fluidity with the greatest of ease and her conversations with her aunt are revelatory for a movie starring women.

Full Review | Nov 18, 2020

In an era in which so many people struggle to find their true self, Princess Cyd is a beautifully-made film that should encourage people to know that it is better to live authentically than to live a lie.

Full Review | Jul 20, 2020

The magic of Stephen Cone's Princess Cyd doesn't revolve around Cyd as the title may suggest, but this humble-yet-wholehearted film gives its female characters unabashed agency over the lives they've chosen to lead.

Full Review | Jul 20, 2020

So many movies are all sizzle and no steak; it's kind of refreshing, in a way, to be frustrated by all steak and no sizzle.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jul 20, 2020

The cinematic equivalent of a bath bomb, this fizzy feature is sure to delight - at least until the charm fades.

Full Review | Jul 20, 2020

Stephen Cone's Princess Cyd is a soft-treading beauty, warm, light and perceptive on fragile questions of feminine sexuality, gender identity and finding your place in your skin.

Full Review | Jul 20, 2020

What begins as a breezy, drifting character study subtly transforms into an emotional puzzle in which the answers to some questions come into focus, while others become fuzzier. Welcome to life.

Full Review | May 19, 2020

The undervalued director confers a frank grace, letting each of these ideas collide and tangle, and rest among themselves-an exemplary feat of cinema, and one that ought to extend to the world.

Full Review | Feb 28, 2020

Director and writer Stephen Cone gently weaves together a light bright story, with an exception of one dark moment.

Full Review | Feb 4, 2020

Its breezy treatment of sexuality, spirituality and women's relationships in lieu of drama for drama's sake make it a beautifully poignant piece.

Full Review | Sep 22, 2019

The three central performances of Princess Cyd are near flawless and the honesty and subtlety of this tale, which sees hope in the struggles of life at all its stages, is astonishing.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | May 24, 2019

The relationships that Cyd has with Katie and Miranda develop at that perfect pace for when time is short but the days are long.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 4, 2019

Stephen Cone makes films which are religious in the best sense-through richly developed characters, his cinema touches the transcendent by way of the immanent.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 13, 2018

It has a sense of authenticity which makes it stand-out from other teen dramas.

Full Review | Nov 3, 2018

Cone's film is meek, irenic and sincere. It doesn't push a certain agenda onto the viewer, it doesn't intrude on the characters after they are introduced and it doesn't favor or side with one perspective or another.

Full Review | Original Score: 8 | Nov 3, 2018

"Happiness is unique." By capturing how women of two generations can share it while taking different paths to get there, the immense satisfaction that comes from "Princess Cyd" is quite distinct as well.

Full Review | Oct 22, 2018

Stephen Cone has given us something astonishing in Princess Cyd. It is a film led solely by women, all of whom are beautifully sketched and presented with bountiful grace.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 5, 2018