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The nostalgic royalism of a beauty pageant, with the jeweled crown that rewards the winner, provides a perfect vehicle for this 21st-century form of monarchy.—Rhonda Garelick, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023 The movie tries to compensate for its unapologetic royalism with hand-wringing about the Zamundan patriarchy but stops short of making its female characters too interesting or distinctive.—Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2021
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