Admirable film.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I found this movie on Netflix streaming movies. My wife was not interested in seeing it. The premise is based in fact, on VE day in May 1945 the two young Princesses, Elizabeth (19) and Margaret (15), who had been home- schooled and never out of sight during WW2, asked to be allowed to go out into the crowds in London, to mingle, to see how all the commoners were reacting to the victory over Nazi Germany. Their mum was against it but Elizabeth (future Queen, and still Queen today) was persistent and their dad, King George, gave permission.In this fictional expansion of that rather quiet event two soldiers are sent along to make sure the sisters would be safe. However the girls soon gave them the slip and had many experiences overnight, some in particularly shady parts of London.We know today that Elizabeth was then, and remained, "feisty". Her character here is depicted that way. As history records she married two years later, and less than 7 years after VE Day she became Queen of England when her dad, King George, died.It is a small movie but interesting to see how things might have been for the royal family back then. Sarah Gadon, a Canadian, is very good as Elizabeth. Bel Powley is her younger sister Margaret. Emily Watson is good as their mother, the Queen. And I didn't actually recognize that Rupert Everett played King George.Overall an interesting and entertaining 90 minutes.

This movie is a little jewel of movie storytelling. Very nicely done on all aspects. I wouldn't trade all the superhero movies or a week's worth of CGI for two minutes of it. This is what movie making should be. Bel Powley who played Princess Margaret made her character very likable, interesting and funny. Watch out for her. She's got charisma on screen. Any scene she's in is very alive. Everything was well done in this movie. The tune that starts during the gazebo scene and continues in the trek across the bridge was pure movie making genius.Congratulations.

I wonder if perhaps I would have really enjoyed "A Royal Night Out" a lot more if I was British. All I know is that the film, and especially the premise, left me cold. The film is based EXTREMELY loosely on the fact that Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret went out to celebrate V- E day (when the Germans surrendered to end WWII in Europe). This DID occur...but the girls were chaperoned and went in a large group...with absolutely no real free time to be common people. Margaret, by the way, was only 14. This film pretends that instead of staying with BOTH their escorts, the pair ran about London--with Margaret acting a bit like a dummy and Elizabeth spending most of the night looking for her. Yeah...whatever.Apart from the story (which didn't interest me very much), the movie DID has a nice look and they apparently tried very hard to get the look of 1945 right. But as I mentioned, it didn't interest me very much. I don't care about what MIGHT have happened if the two princesses went slumming. First, they didn't. Second, I couldn't care less about the actions of a couple spoiled royals. I guess I am too much of an oppositional American to really care about all this. Looked nice, made me laugh once or twice and well made but that's about all.

Not exactly of course, but then again this might not accurate on how things went down either. Depicting historical figures and a historical event (end of WWII, British crown and so forth) might not be something people are too interested to watch. But then if you like a feel good movie overall and a fish out of water story (loyalty mixing it up with common folk), then you might be right here.Having said that, there is still some tough issues that want to be answered, but even when this gets darker, it never loses focus on the lightness that makes it work. So this isn't too critical or too dramatic, but it is entertaining, while being predictable in giving us the clichés we expect. Having said, costumes and settings are generally good and the acting is decent too