It's a gently amusing, surreal vision that dishes up hard truths in an unsentimental but never brutal fashion.

| Jun 2, 2020

A captivating, heartwarming, and ultimately life affirming celebration of what makes us human.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 6, 2019

... the film dishonors the history it glides through by lacking any sense of real danger.

| Mar 8, 2018

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 16, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 16, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 16, 2011

| Original Score: A- | Sep 7, 2011

The world it depicts is too dangerous and too lovely to classify.

| Original Score: A | Nov 21, 2008

The movie is filled with wonderful moments, set pieces of absurdity, and a richness of humor. But underneath, Menzel and Hraba have a wry and sometimes painful story to tell of the history of their country in the 20th century.

| Nov 10, 2008

I Served the King of England plays like a combination of Life Is Beautiful and Forrest Gump.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 24, 2008

Tasty enough but inoffensive even when it should offend, provoke, startle.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 18, 2008

The pseudo-sensuality is annoying and the supposed absurdism and satire are flimsy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2008

[A] delightful, lighthearted satire, a quirky story of fantasy, wealth and pretty women with exposed nipples.

| Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: A- | Oct 18, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2008

This inventive, charming picture-perfect picaresque tale of an ambitious young Czech rascal scrambling in the pre-Nazi and wartime eras marks a welcome and victorious return for Jiri Menzel, whose last major conquest was his 1967 Oscar-winning debut, C

| Oct 13, 2008

Amelie meets The Pianist in I Served the King of England, one man's surreal journey through 30 years of Czech history.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 10, 2008

In the end, I Served the King of England is doomed to fail by comparison. Ironically, they are comparisons that the film itself keeps making.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 9, 2008

"I Served the King of England" is like an endless feast, featuring one spectacular course after another. Somehow, you never get so full that you want to push yourself away from the table.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 7, 2008

Celebrates the pleasures of life while acknowledging its tragedy and absurdity... Its attitude might be described as good-natured fatalism.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 6, 2008