Filmmaker Michôd delivers a slow-moving yet perpetually engrossing endeavor that benefits from its atmospheric visuals and surfeit of captivating performances...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 8, 2022

Kings and kingship are not in themselves such a fashionable subject for audiences today, but the question of good leadership and how to govern is as relevant today as it has always been, and will not go away.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2022

“The King” does a good job reinventing Shakespeare’s characters and using them to offer up a meaningful critique of imperialism and the politics of war.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 22, 2022

Inspired casting aside, the adaptation takes questionable liberties by removing the poetry from the language and changing the nature of the characters.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 23, 2022

The King a film with a compelling and captivating story that leaves an emotional impact.

| Feb 12, 2022

Chalamet is woefully out of his depth in a miscast role, and the rest of the movie is pedestrian at best...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 14, 2021

This isn't Shakespeare, exactly, though it interpolates material from all the relevant plays. It's a handsome if sometimes plodding chronicle...

| Nov 3, 2020

For all of its ominous and operatic performances, it's the supporting cast that gives The King its watchable credibility.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 3, 2020

A film drama (insufficiently) inspired by Shakespeare's work...

| Aug 5, 2020

I'm not captivated by almost nothing I see in 'The King', the historical drama by Australian director David Michod. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 2, 2020

I'm glad I saw it, but I doubt anyone will rush back to see this come next St. Crispin's Day.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 8, 2020

While David Michôd's The King could be easily dismissed as a substandard Shakespearean adaption; there's no way one can dismiss the rich coming of age story at its center.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 9, 2020

None of The King's flaws are serious enough to sink it, and often it hits the sweet spot between glossing over the mud and blood of times past and over-the-top revelling in it

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 3, 2020

I expected a not half-bad historical account. But it was surprisingly much more, with unexpected great performances to include Timothée Chalamet as Henry V and Robert Pattinson as the snotty French prince.

| Original Score: 8.1/10 | Feb 7, 2020

...between Chalamet's solemn commitment and Pattinson's overt silliness there's an impeccably well made film, that feels authentically grounded when it comes to the costumes and interior decor of the Middle Ages...

| Original Score: B | Jan 8, 2020

The kind of questionable interpretation of Shakespeare that would probably have the Bard scratching his head.

| Original Score: B | Dec 11, 2019

Edgerton plays Falstaff's drunken buffoonery as an old warrior's self-medication, not a fool's personality. But most of all I liked the fight scenes, which unromantically depict the grim, ugly slog of medieval combat.

| Dec 11, 2019

The King is so laden with the trappings of profundity and prestige that in the end, it smothers itself to death.

| Dec 6, 2019

I'm liking the Netflix option on my 온라인카지노추천.

| Original Score: 3.65 | Dec 5, 2019

This handsomely mounted biopic is an overall muddled depiction of a critical period in European history.

| Nov 29, 2019