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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxFilm works best as a soberly witty commentary on the workplace and makes an interesting companion piece to "Mondays in the Sun."
- 80Film ThreatFilm ThreatPrincesas isn't the cliché "Pretty Woman" type romantic-comedy you'd expect – it's actually quite surprising.
- 75New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsThe actresses create wonderfully rich characters, and Luis Callejo, as Caye's unknowing boyfriend Manuel, and Antonio Durán, as the sadistic civil servant, fill out the very strong cast.
- 70VarietyJonathan HollandVarietyJonathan HollandThis loosely-structured pic feels authentic, its underdramatized script resolutely nonjudgmental.
- 70SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirCandela Peña is sensational in the leading role, and the film is big-hearted, poetic, sweet, sad and romantic.
- 60Village VoiceVillage VoiceDe Aranoa never condescends to his subjects, and Caye's mixture of aggression and tenderness is appealingly authentic.
- 58The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsIt's well-acted and strikingly shot, and its depiction of contemporary Spanish squalor is hard to forget, but it never quite reconciles its high-drama situations with its low-key approach. It whispers when it really wants to shout.
- 58Entertainment WeeklyEntertainment WeeklyThe way that Aranoa so clearly venerates his lively women feels Almodóvar-esque, but the movie aims most of all to suggest that hookerdom is hell -- and it's neither realistic nor unsentimental enough to pull that off.
- 50New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoStarts as a serious examination of the two women's lives, but it descends into a mushy melodrama complete with schmaltzy music and dewy cinematography.
- A maudlin melodrama about prostitutes in Madrid, Princesas is not, alas, the new film by Pedro Almodóvar, but a dilution of his manner by the writer-director Fernando León de Aranoa.