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See Twisters in theaters!

A smart, well done, summer popcorn movie.

The leads Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell are terrific and have tons of chemistry!

IMO the "romance" plots in most of these action movies are trite and useless - but here, the natural, low-key dialogue, the "slow burn" is terrific and makes one hope to see them together again in more movies.

Daisy Edgar-Jones' "Kate" is lovely, smart, nice and exudes strength in a focused, straightforward way.

What a refreshing change - no overwrought histrionics or nastiness to mistakenly exemplify strength.

And thankfully the film lets her wear sensible clothes - not force her to don absurd objectifying clothing.

Glen Powell is vibrant, heroic and charming as "Tyler" and skillfully handles the transition from the weather "cowboy" we first meet to later showing us the real Tyler.

Huge kudos to the director Lee Isaac Chung, especially as this is his first big action movie.

Check out Ty Burr's review in the Washington Post -he says it all.

Sadly, Damsel is not interesting or exciting or fun.

The plot was tedious, the story-line did not make sense, the political-backstory elements were absurd, the script-dialogue was blah and the characters were not interesting or compelling - except Robin Wright as the queen and the little sister who was cute and spunky.

Millie Bobby Brown was adorable in Enola Holmes but wasted here.

Best thing would be to check out some older fantasy-adventure etc type movies that are more entertaining and/or fun such as Dragonheart with Dennis Quaid, Eragon with Ed Speleers, Prince Valiant with Stephan Moyer, Jack and the Giant Slayer with Nicholas Hoult, George and the Dragon with Piper Perabo and Stardust with Claire Danes. Or spunky heroine movies like Ever After with Drew Barrymore, The Princes of Thieves with Keira Knightley as Robin Hood's daughter and The King's Daughter with Kyra Scodelario.

Worth seeing movie but there are some significant problems - which are the fault of the director.

The positives: the film is absorbing with good performances, costumes and sets.

But a bunch of negatives, including some completely false presentation of history, particularly regarding Henry VIII's death.

This is unforgivable IMO.

And although the premise of the movie (based on a novel) is Catherine Parr as "feminist" queen, the movie inexplicably omits important information and context that actually illustrate her "feminist" achievements. For example no mention of her backstory (that she was twice a widow by the age of 31 when she was married to Henry VIII) and not clarifying her remarkable educational abilities and accomplishments including that she was fluent in Latin, French and Italian and the first woman in England to publish written work in English. Historians describe her as having good sense, moral rectitude, compassion, firm religious commitment, a strong sense of loyalty and devotion and embracing Henry's children Mary, Elizabeth and Edward.

There are also noticeable and distracting script and social behavior anachronisms - examples such as casual dialogue and contemporary language such as using the word "pregnant" instead of "with child"

Getting back to the director - a man, not British and Firebrand was his first English language film.

Hiring him as the director was a poor decision and disrespectful to the subject matter.

There would have been multiple other good choices - especially people with period piece experience such as Simon Curtis (Downton Abby), Tom Hooper (King's Speech), Stephen Frears.