Spencer follows the Princess of Wales as she navigates a precarious Christmas holiday with the Royal Family at their Sandringham estate in Norfolk in 1991—a moment that will set Diana on a path to independence, as she decides to end her marriage to Charles, Prince of Wales.

A haunted house movie told with spiralling subjectivity, Pablo Larraín’s ravishing Diana fable has more in common with The Shining than it does with The Crown. Led by a magnificent Kristen Stewart, and with an evocative score from Jonny Greenwood, Spencer matches formal maximalism with high camp.