"Rodriguez admires these girls. It's evident in the care she has taken in powering their imaginations."
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"Watching adults pretend to be children for almost two hours is a lot to ask of an audience, but in these quieter moments of imaginative solitude, the cast shines."
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"Indian Princesses captures something essential about the constipation of our frightened souls, and it manages to do so while remaining, for most of its under-two-hour run time, a comedy."
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"Indian Princesses announces a fresh voice with a welcome amount of empathy and intelligence to back up high ambition."
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"Indian Princesses falters on a paradox, insisting on its young characters' distinctiveness while providing little evidence of it, and enshrining them in mundane dramatic circumstances. It's not terrible, but it's not special, and too much of it has been done better elsewhere."
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"Indian Princesses meanders a bit too much among its three threads...but it is nonetheless a compelling tale, both of a messy present and a hopeful future."
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“But Rodriguez's genius is recognizing that the YMCA program is a trope for something larger: how any dominant culture digests, sanitizes, and sells back the cultures it has worked to destroy.”
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There’s a lot to unpack here, and Eliana Theologides Rodriguez and director Miranda Cornell don’t always manage the transitions between the satiric and the dramatic. ★★★☆☆
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