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By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 21 Sep 2006

All the King's Men is obviously a movie that has been so rejiggered and downsized, in length and intelligence, that its guiding principles…

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By Robert Denerstein (1,148) for Denver Rocky Mountain News (608) on 21 Sep 2006

Instead of bringing this story to bustling, brilliant life, Zaillian and company make it feel as if it belongs behind a glass case in some museum…

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By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 21 Sep 2006

All the King's Men has to settle for being something good that makes you want more (like a six-hour HBO movie)…

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By James Rocchi (1,075) for Cinematical (752) on 21 Sep 2006

The problem with ... All the King's Men is that it's a political movie where we never really get a sense of politics…

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By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 21 Sep 2006

But then, maybe it was too much to ask for Zaillian to pull this one off…

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By Bob Bloom (1,124) for Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) (1,017) on 21 Sep 2006

Zaillian does not make things easy for the audience…

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By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 21 Sep 2006

The fact that it falls short of the greatness it so obviously strives for doesn't mean it isn't a good film…

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By Angela Baldassarre (259) for Sympatico.ca (259) on 21 Sep 2006

While sitting with critics for the first ever press screening of Steve Zaillian's All the King's Men, I didn't know whether to laugh at Sean…

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By Susan Granger (2,214) for Modamag.com (300) on 21 Sep 2006

Ponderous and pretentious - nstead of a timeless, relevant political commentary, it just feels discordant and tediously dated…

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By Daniel M. Kimmel (1,403) for Worcester Telegram & Gazette (604) on 21 Sep 2006

eminently watchable, but when it's over it turns out not to have been very satisfying…

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By Mike Ward (328) for Richmond Times-Dispatch (308) on 21 Sep 2006

At just over two hours - not bad for a semi-fictional bio-epic - All the King's Men still feels bloated…

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By Josh Bell (1,421) for Las Vegas Weekly (1,340) on 21 Sep 2006

It's hard to believe that so many good actors can be put to such poor use…

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By Duane Dudek (861) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 21 Sep 2006

Not even Sean Penn can put All the King's Men back together again…

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By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 20 Sep 2006

Zaillian sells short the faceoff of shrewd old guard and scrappy proletariat by looking away just when the twain meet…

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By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 20 Sep 2006

Possesses what any attempted 'prestige picture' should dread: a conspicuous sense of self-importance…

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By Eric D. Snider (2,489) for EricDSnider.com (2,026) on 20 Sep 2006

If it weren't for the fact that the movie isn't very good, it would probably stand a chance of fulfilling its transparent Oscar dreams…

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By Edward Douglas (1,395) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 20 Sep 2006

I'd pay good money to get a shorter, more coherent version of this movie ... preferably with sub-titles…

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By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 20 Sep 2006

The film arrives much like its anti-hero Willie Stark with a lot of passionate arm-flailing and a populace destined to be disappointed in what…

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By Willie Waffle (1,383) for WaffleMovies.com (1,380) on 20 Sep 2006

How can you mess up a movie with Sean Penn, Anthony Hopkins, Patricia Clarkson and Tony Soprano…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 20 Sep 2006

Sean Penn is expectedly dynamic...but even he cannot overcome a film that has him turn on a dime from duped small timer to Machiavellian manipulator…

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