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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 09 Oct 2019

With the Bard’s words, Henry roused his soldiers to action: “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.” With this mediocrity, it’s…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 07 Oct 2019

The unholy clash of pageantry and squalor is finely framed; warriors in silvery helmets, shot from high above, and gleaming in the murk, resemble…

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By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 07 Oct 2019

It’s hard to feel energized by a historical epic finding a couple of ways to look cool for a few minutes at a time…

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By Isaac Butler (4) for Slate (2,081) on 02 Oct 2019

This Hal can only mumble resentfully in one language…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 05 Sep 2019

With its pummeling scenes of mud-and-blood combat, its majestic, nearly monochrome widescreen images and its beautifully broody Nicholas Britell…

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By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 04 Sep 2019

As indebted to the mood and visual language of Game of Thrones as it is to the Bard’s texts, Michôd provides finely worked entertainment…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 03 Sep 2019

Historical epics are rarely light on their feet, but The King sets new standards in the field of galumphing: the film moves like a rhinoceros…

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By Christina Newland (21) for The Playlist (3,871) on 03 Sep 2019

In spite of all the reasons that this film should have been another Outlaw King – silly and self-important – it manages to cleverly duck…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 03 Sep 2019

This is a large-canvas treatment both epic and intimate in scale…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 03 Sep 2019

Full of surprises…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 03 Sep 2019

The King, written by Michôd and Edgerton, zips along—it never feels like a slog, though it still has a satisfyingly hefty dramatic weight…

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By Phil De Semlyen (265) for Time Out (7,510) on 03 Sep 2019

Sure, some of the historical detail is terrible (did Henry V really get crowned topless…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 03 Sep 2019

Too many movies set in this period end up as action films in medieval drag…

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By John Bleasdale (289) for CineVue (2,163) on 03 Sep 2019

The King feels disconnected and unurgent. Despite some wonderful moments, it perhaps lacks the requisite majesty…

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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 03 Sep 2019

Without the Shakespearean language, this is just an ahistorical story about a king and a battle…

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By Xan Brooks (287) for The Guardian (2,969) on 03 Sep 2019

One watches Chalamet’s performance here with a simmering unease, willing him on but wondering if he is entirely fit for the task…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 03 Sep 2019

The King is so eager to be a mud-and-guts epic about inherited violence and the corruption of power that it loses sight of the rich coming-of-age…

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By Jonathan Romney (434) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 03 Sep 2019

Michôd’s film is a determinedly solemn and violent affair, which makes a sober political point at the end – but not before it has treated…

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