Kings' fragmented treatment fails in delivering a compelling story. It also lacks the depth and clarity needed to convey a solid message, which one can assume was the purpose given the liberal use of certain politically charged images and sound bites.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jul 26, 2023

Even as pure dramatization, "Kings" is an irresponsibly aimless one.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 12, 2022

A timely look at race relations in America dating back almost three decades, Kings is a cinematically impressive film with a messy, stunted script.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 19, 2019

Indeed, the film's uneven approach is difficult to engage with, but [Deniz Gamze] Erguven has made an audacious movie that vividly places the audience at ground zero in history.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 12, 2019

Kings is a clumsily etched portrayal of a dark chapter in history, which is more likely to confuse than educate.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 9, 2019

'Kings' is the king of incoherence. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: .5/5 | Mar 4, 2019

The film's worst sin is not that it's a middling movie. It's that it adds nothing to an urgent and ongoing dialogue.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 24, 2019

Although it's set against the backdrop of the 1992 Rodney King riots, the film fails to capture the real anger of a city divided.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 22, 2018

It could use a good edit but even then we would still be left with a chic Halle Berry and a charismatic Daniel Craig who shouldn't be so appealing in such a heavy drama.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 28, 2018

A very diffuse mix of incredible violence and misjudged imagery.

| Sep 10, 2018

Deniz Gamze Erguven illustrates the revolts of 1992 after the Rodney King case with poor quality and unrefined in a film lacking accuracy and delicacy. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 30, 2018

It's an English language debut as curiously assembled as it is woefully tone-deaf and inadvertently demeaning despite what we can assume to be the good intentions of its creator.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 27, 2018

Where it excels in capturing the unrest of an era, it fails in character development.

| Aug 24, 2018

"Kings" is a mess, edited with a butter knife and emotionally constipated.

| Original Score: D | Jul 11, 2018

... frenetically paced yet lacking narrative urgency and focus, unintentionally sabotaging its intentions and rendering the result less impactful than it aspires to be.

| Jul 6, 2018

For all its best efforts, Kings fails to put the 1992 Los Angeles riots into focus.

| Original Score: 4/10 | May 14, 2018

What once felt fresh and honest now comes across as completely phony.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 9, 2018

It's about screaming and loud yelling. Not to be left out, even Craig gets a screaming scene.

| May 6, 2018

This dud recreation of the 1992 L.A. riots traps Halle Berry and Daniel Craig and a piece of momentous, civil-rights history in a crazyquilt of random action, absurdist humor, bogus romance and questionable purpose.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Apr 28, 2018

The tone of the piece is all over the place, from tear-jerking pathos to ribald comedy and back again.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 27, 2018