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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Shadows on the Wall (2,096) on 21 Aug 2018

Jarecki's points about the true nature of US history are frighteningly on-the-nose…

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By Geoffrey Macnab (1,253) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 21 Aug 2018

[Director Eugene] Jarecki combines probing and provocative analysis of US culture with a more conventional account of Presley's musical career…

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By Sammy H (50) on 21 Aug 2018

Update...I apologize. My rant about the sound was not the fault of the producer/director. I was the fault of the theater…

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By Christopher Campbell (291) for Thrillist (209) on 15 Aug 2018

Eugene Jarecki, who tends to swing for the fences with big ideas, hits another home run…

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By Dorothy Woodend (313) for The Tyee (British Columbia) (313) on 07 Aug 2018

There isn't a whole lot there that we haven't already eaten and digested a few times over. It's far more interesting to look forward…

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By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 04 Aug 2018

A state-of-the-union assessment by way of an Elvis Presley documentary…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 01 Aug 2018

Documentary about the rise and decline of Elvis Presley as a metaphor for the rise and decline of America…

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By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 01 Aug 2018

The new doc includes too many generic shots of aircraft carriers, skyscrapers, and other totems of power…

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By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 26 Jul 2018

The insistence may inspire a furrowed brow here, a rolled eye there, and a shaken fist or knowing nod over yonder, but there's enough earnest…

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By Rick Kisonak (485) for Seven Days (657) on 24 Jul 2018

It's safe, I think, to say few filmmakers are visionary enough to conceive of a project this ambitious, much less pull it off…

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By William K (391) on 20 Jul 2018

85% BS - It's a bait and switch…

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By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 19 Jul 2018

A fitting film to have Errol Morris, Steven Soderbergh and Roseanne Cash as executive producers: a slippery discourse about music, meaning…

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By Robert Denerstein (1,148) for Denerstein Unleashed (254) on 19 Jul 2018

The difference: Much of The King proves interesting and some [of] it, even salient…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 18 Jul 2018

A provocative argument, but even those disinclined to be persuaded by it can enjoy the mode through which Jarecki presents it…

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By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 18 Jul 2018

The King presents a provocative exploration of the nation's soul…

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By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 18 Jul 2018

Few directors have Jarecki's skill for pulling a massive stack of disparate themes - race, celebrity, power, wealth, drug addiction, poverty,…

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By Christopher Llewellyn Reed (298) for Hammer to Nail (208) on 17 Jul 2018

It is to Jarecki's credit that he allows all to speak, making for a vibrant discussion in this…

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By George B (718) on 17 Jul 2018

It's a road trip. It;s a biopic. It's an exploration of Elvis as symbol of the USA-both dying of excess and emptiness…

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By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 14 Jul 2018

The King, like its subject, is an incomplete work. What's here is interesting and, for the most part, entertaining…

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By Prairie Miller (985) for WBAI Radio (118) on 14 Jul 2018

Or rather a tale of two cons…

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