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By Sean Burns (1,156) for The ARTery (128) on 10 Jul 2018

A metaphor in search of a movie, it's an incoherent chop suey of big ideas and overfamiliar biography, positioning Elvis as a representation…

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By Anita Katz (182) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 04 Jul 2018

The King, a documentary connecting the two rise-and-fall stories, makes for fresh, exciting viewing…

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By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 27 Jun 2018

Pushes metaphoric parallels between life of Elvis and American exceptionalism as far as his 1962 Rolls-Royce can go…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 27 Jun 2018

With an insistence that borders almost comically on obsession, [director Eugene Jarecki] forces the singer's life into a larger theory of national…

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By Chris Barsanti (896) for The Playlist (3,871) on 24 Jun 2018

By the time Jarecki is done with Elvis, the lanky and projects-raised rockabilly kid…

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By Sheila O'malley (474) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 23 Jun 2018

So vast it often strains to make connections, but its form-an intricate intersecting montage, a flashcard bombardment of images and clips-keeps…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 23 Jun 2018

That’s the power of My King. It sees that passion creates an unholy mess…

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By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 21 Jun 2018

[The film is] a biographical study that achieves the noteworthy result of contextualizing one of the most famous and well-documented American…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue (704) on 21 Jun 2018

a sometimes fun, occasionally provocative, and mostly disjointed mess…

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By Clint Worthington (295) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 20 Jun 2018

For as well-intentioned as Jarecki may be, The King starts with a conclusion and works backward from there, and the results are more than a…

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By Gwen Ihnat (16) for AV Club (2,778) on 20 Jun 2018

The overall merging of the two stories offers deeper insight into the fall of both the King and the country as a whole…

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By Andrew Lapin (196) for NPR (1,713) on 20 Jun 2018

What carries us through this mad experiment is a sense of commonality through the oral tradition, a reminder that Elvis's story is one of our…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for TIME Magazine (1,130) on 20 Jun 2018

Perceptive, probing and ultimately devastating, The King is for anyone who cares about where this country has been and where it's headed…

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By Mark Kennedy (184) for Associated Press (1,685) on 19 Jun 2018

What could have been a gentle, personal travelogue is reworked and reworked until it's often guilty of the last sin of Elvis - excess…

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By Daniel Eagan (552) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 19 Jun 2018

Its dubious assertions and utter lack of empathy for its subject and his milieu, all The King ends up doing is further cloud our understanding…

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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 Jun 2018

I'd probably love this film's wandering spirit and Elvis-is-everywhere philosophizing if it were half as fast or twice as long, if it pinned…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 28 Mar 2018

Like the director's other projects, this is intelligent and ambitious, but the cultural insights are too familiar to merit yet another trek…

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By Jeremy Smith (9) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 29 Jan 2018

Now we get to wrestle with The King, a Rorschach test of a documentary that bombards the viewer with wildly conflicting takes on the meaning…

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By Àngel Quintana (30) for Caimán Cuadernos de Cine (109) on 21 May 2017

An acid and blunt portrait of American myths and their fall in the Trump era. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 21 May 2017

An abstract road movie, fueled on disillusionment and rock and roll, and one that attempts quite an ambitious task…

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