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By Brad Wheeler (426) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 12 Jul 2018

Provocative and at times unwieldy, The King is something of a stoned CNN Special Report on wheels…

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By Alan Zilberman (171) for Brightest Young Things (103) on 12 Jul 2018

Indulging Jarecki's lazy metaphor is the sole reason this film exists…

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By Bruce Demara (410) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 11 Jul 2018

Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki does something rather unusual with The King, which becomes something extraordinary and insightful…

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By Tricia Olszewski (442) for Washington City Paper (500) on 11 Jul 2018

No matter how hard he tries to connect the dots, however, the analogy remains as stretched as Elvis' late-career stage clothes…

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By Maren Longbella (37) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 11 Jul 2018

A fascinating look at a fascinating icon…

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By Mark Feeney (434) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 11 Jul 2018

At its best, The King is a fever dream of American glory and American weirdness - between which there can be an even thinner line than the…

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By Jeffrey Edalatpour (80) for MetroActive (325) on 11 Jul 2018

Jarecki acknowledges the limits of comparing Elvis' decline with that of America's... but he does get a lot of mileage from testing the idea…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 10 Jul 2018

A complete mess of a movie, but one that's fascinating to watch for most of its run time…

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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

It's hard to pinpoint exactly when Eugene Jarecki's one-of-a-kind doc on the rise and fall of Elvis turns into a metaphor for Trump's America,…

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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 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 Tim Appelo (178) for AARP Movies for Grownups (302) on 20 Jun 2018

A rambling, lively, high-IQ cinematic essay…

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