It’s a competently directed film with excellent performances and a premise that one can’t help but be swept up in. “The King’s Speech” is no classic, but it deserves more credit than it’s been given.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 23, 2024

A polished, well-rounded drama that subtly and artfully crafts its personal themes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2024

This is a life-affirming picture about a complex friendship and personal conviction that’s as touching as it is inspiring, and it does all this without feeling cliché or typical.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 3, 2023

With impeccable period detail accompanied by a few great performances, The King’s Speech is a crowd-friendly, uncomplicated film with a big heart.

| Jun 27, 2023

Reminds us of a time — not long ago at all — when substance counted for something, and admiration, even among those born to privilege, had to be earned.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 1, 2023

It’s done with good taste, crisp restraint, self-effacing humor and, of course, the modesty we expect from British cinema. Stiff upper lip and all that, with just a touch of sentiment.

| Feb 4, 2023

Firth strikes a perfect balance between his abrasive traits and the vulnerability that coaxes our empathy.

| Nov 29, 2022

This spiritual odyssey deserves to be told and in the splendid manner of The King's Speech. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 14, 2022

"The King's Speech" tells this very personal story of therapy and friendship in such an exquisitely grand and fulfilling way.

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

A brilliantly made Royalist drama...

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 25, 2021

While there is mild mounting tension, the crux of the film rests on a mere speech recital which is in itself largely anticlimactic.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 29, 2020

The holiday season's must see film.

| Original Score: 4.0/4.0 | Sep 13, 2020

A wonderfully-acted, well-crafted motion picture, but one that is also brutally dull.

| Original Score: C | Jul 12, 2020

This Oscar-bait tour de force should leave you laughing, and perhaps shedding a tear for a very human monarch.

| Jun 8, 2020

[T]his film is a genuine delight.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 23, 2019

A strong and respectable drama that is anything but revolutionary, but admirably tells its story with dignity and grace.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 7, 2019

Firth's performance in this great film cements his status as one of the best actors working today.

| Original Score: A | May 8, 2019

Some people never learn. Which is why the great pedagogical movies are for all of us, every last one.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 20, 2019

Travel without prejudice and you will enjoy a moving, impeccably acted and surprisingly funny slice of comfort food. There are worse ways of starting an unpromising looking year.

| Feb 20, 2019

The King's Speech lingers in the mind and the emotions long after it ends, communicating to us in the spirit of Logue's work.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 16, 2019