Review of Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) by Amro G — 14 May 2009

Alec Guinness...what more need be said? A classic!!

This review of Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) was written by Amro G on 14 May 2009.

Kind Hearts and Coronets has generally received very positive reviews.

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

More Reviews of Kind Hearts and Coronets

Review of Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

By Anna B (1,143) on 13 Feb 2012

I'm not the biggest fan of Ealing comedies and this looks like one of the more stuffy ones…

Read Review

Review of Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

By Sgt. C (526) on 02 Jan 2014

One of the strongest written comedies ever made, it really does put so many others to shame…

Read Review

Review of Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

By William F (436) on 18 Feb 2012

Probably the only movie I will grant 5 stars too. It was a wet sunday afternoon in early '80 Birkenhead when this came on the TV…

Read Review

Review of Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

By Jon P (467) on 10 Jan 2014

Loaded with biting dialogue and bags of British charm, Robert Hamer's witty classic bares all the hallmarks of a true Ealing great…

Read Review

Review of Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

By Jordan T (851) on 13 Jul 2014

Bizarre but funny crime film featuring Alec Guinness as the eight members of a family standing in one young man's way of dukedom…

Read Review

Review of Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

By Paul B (2,474) on 05 May 2014

This defines black comedy for me. It has some of the most deliciously nasty characters ever put on celluloid…

Read Review

Review of Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

By Wezul S (323) on 22 May 2016

Kind Hearts and Coronets is a scathing satire on the British classes as well as being a sophisticated and clever comedy with a touch of murder…

Read Review

Review of Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

By Samantha G (181) on 01 Mar 2013

A great British black comedy with an excellent story and very good characters. Sir Alec Guinness shines in his eight different rolls…

Read Review

Review of Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

By Lucas Q (90) on 20 Feb 2013

Magnificent black comedy about a duke recalling the cutthroat means he employed to rise to his current status…

Read Review

Review of Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

By Jens T (504) on 06 Jul 2012

Sir Alec Guinness does a remarkable job indeed playing an entire family (…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

Reviews of Similar Movies

Review of La Chienne (1931)

By Witney Seibold (272) for CraveOnline (813) on 19 Jun 2016

Any discussion of the film's actual story can only be a discussion of how life imitates art…

Read Review

Review of Clay Pigeons (1998)

By Dennis Lim (218) for Village Voice (8,525) on 30 Jul 2004

It's never clear, by the way, why any of this is supposed to be even remotely funny...This is the kind of movie asinine enough to believe that…

Read Review

Review of I Can Do Bad All By Myself (2009)

By Amely (1) on 11 Sep 2009

Its exactly what you'd expect from Tyler perry, which to me is a very, extremely horrible thing. I saw cause I'm a big fan of Taraji P…

Read Review

Review of Castle on the Hudson (1940)

By Jay N (1,399) on 24 Oct 2013

Efficiently directed but the story is nothing that hasn't been done many times before. Garfield makes it worth seeing…

Read Review

Review of Pépé le Moko (1937)

By Michael Wilmington (1,474) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 26 Jun 2002

A timeless romantic thriller that steeps us in one of those great artificial movie worlds that become more overpowering than reality itself…

Read Review

Review of Tony Rome (1967)

By Thomas P (1,379) on 14 Jul 2016

Pedestrian, slow, episodic. Just blah. Forgettable…

Read Review

Review of The Stone Killer (1973)

By Alan B (249) on 22 Oct 2010

Quite boring. Unoriginal, predictable, lame…

Read Review

Review of Bullet Ballet (1998)

By George I (269) on 06 Mar 2014

Tsukamoto (Tetsuo) is back with another hyperkinetic and colorless experimental film…

Read Review

Review of Shakes the Clown (1991)

By Chris Hicks (618) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 01 Jan 2000

Shakes the Clown is sick but whether it's a joke is a matter of taste. And this film is about as tasteless as they come…

Read Review

Review of The Reckoning (2004)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 22 Jan 2020

Carries too heavy a burden to succeed as the trifle it really is…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Top Gun: Maverick

2022

82%272 Reviews

Deadpool 2

2018

76%1,635 Reviews

Godzilla vs. Kong

2021

66%184 Reviews

Purple Hearts

2022

56%11 Reviews

Spider-Man: No Way Home

2021

79%458 Reviews

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

2017

69%660 Reviews

No Time to Die

2021

74%254 Reviews

Nope

2022

68%181 Reviews

Three Thousand Years of Longing

2022

65%84 Reviews

A Quiet Place

2018

76%1,685 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

Kind Hearts and Coronets

1949

83%414 Reviews

The Model

2016

55%13 Reviews

Racing Extinction

2015

77%45 Reviews

Doctor Dolittle

1967

53%362 Reviews

The Chamber

2016

42%11 Reviews

Amy Schumer: The Leather Special

2017

25%90 Reviews

Ironclad

2011

54%420 Reviews

Speechless

1994

50%54 Reviews

Peep World

2010

40%124 Reviews

Troll 2

1990

38%620 Reviews