The King (2018) - Critic Reviews - Page 3 of 3

41-60 of 60 Reviews

Sort by:

Review of The King (2018)

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…

Read Review

Review of The King (2018)

By Dennis Harvey (1,137) for 48 Hills (18) on 08 Jul 2018

This is very much a matter-of-taste climb out on a long limb…

Read Review

Review of The King (2018)

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…

Read Review

Review of The King (2018)

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…

Read Review

Review of The King (2018)

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

This documentary feature is fascinating and infuriating in unequal parts, the latter far outweighing the former, since Mr…

Read Review

Review of The King (2018)

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 just one generation removed from sharecroppers has been…

Read Review

Review of The King (2018)

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

The King has a restless, kaleidoscopic, take-a-snapshot-and-move-on energy…

Read Review

Review of The King (2018)

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

It's hard to pinpoint exactly when this random, scattershot, overreaching movie stops spinning its wheels and starts flying on a cumulative…

Read Review

Review of The King (2018)

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

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

Read Review

Review of The King (2018)

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…

Read Review

Review of The King (2018)

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…

Read Review

Review of The King (2018)

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…

Read Review

Review of The King (2018)

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…

Read Review

Review of The King (2018)

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

Throughout The King, you can feel Jarecki desperately working, slicing, trying to make connections…

Read Review

Review of The King (2018)

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

The King tries to reclaim Presley by untangling the myths surrounding him…

Read Review

Review of The King (2018)

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

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

Read Review

Review of The King (2018)

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…

Read Review

Review of The King (2018)

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]…

Read Review

Review of The King (2018)

By Carlos F. Heredero (36) for Caimán Cuadernos de Cine (109) on 21 May 2017

Promise Land is a strictly indispensable documentary. [Full review in Spanish]…

Read Review

Review of The King (2018)

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

If Jarecki struggles a little with this alchemy at times it is because Promised Land is essentially three movies in one: a detailed account…

Read Review

Page 3 of 3

More reviews of this movie:

Perhaps you were looking for:

Alec Baldwin - Top 5 movies:

James Carville - Top 5 movies:

Movies you might like:

Woodstock

1970

85%325 Reviews

Long Live Rock... Celebrate the Chaos

2021

60%3 Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

The Menu

2022

70%145 Reviews

Godzilla vs. Kong

2021

66%184 Reviews

Alien: Covenant

2017

61%1,909 Reviews

War for the Planet of the Apes

2017

78%1,656 Reviews

No Hard Feelings

2023

65%90 Reviews

Deadpool

2016

78%1,333 Reviews

Hillbilly Elegy

2020

61%141 Reviews

Spider-Man: No Way Home

2021

79%458 Reviews

Deadpool 2

2018

76%1,635 Reviews

Blade Runner 2049

2017

80%2,332 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

The King

2018

61%69 Reviews

Unfriended

2014

52%1,067 Reviews

Click

2006

61%880 Reviews

In a Bedroom

2012

69%503 Reviews

Singin' in the Rain

1952

89%845 Reviews

Ready Player One

2018

72%1,541 Reviews

The House That Jack Built

2018

63%194 Reviews

Body Heat

1981

77%322 Reviews

Dark Skies

2013

59%642 Reviews

Killers

2010

43%709 Reviews