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05/03/07
The King (2006)
54 %
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Reviews Counted: 74
Fresh: 40
Rotten:34
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Consensus: This disturbing film about the past coming back demanding its due evokes classical tragedy, but is ultimately too heavy-handed.
Synopsis: Gael Garcia Bernal (THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES) may posses the rugged good looks of a classic screen star but he continues to dodge Hollywood, instead choosing to follow his own idiosyncratic path with movies like THE KING. Bernal stars as... [More]
Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, William Hurt, Pell James, Paul Dano
Director: James Marsh
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Reviews for The King
Good work that, with a little more effort, could have been so much better.
03/01/07
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01/20/07
The filmmakers' stoicism finally proves insurmountable and indefatigable
10/17/06
I'm all in favor of warts-and-all depictions of Christians, but the closer you look, the more you realize that warts are all this film has to offer.
09/25/06
A Southwestern American pastoral of dormant menace, The King is a film of triple-dipped mood that turns on an act of shocking violence, but still seems to substitute willful indistinctness for insight.
09/22/06
"The King" actually moves you, particularly because it has outstanding actors like William Hurt and Gael Garcia Bernal giving haunting, complex performances.
09/06/06
Programmed by the fatalistic filmmakers toward a cruel outcome, but the actors make it convincing...
08/11/06
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08/06/06
Top Critic Both Hurt and Bernal drift through their performances, leaving the audience as unfulfilled as an empty collection plate.
07/28/06
The many possible ways to read the film might be more fruitful if Marsh's direction was more assured.
07/15/06
Marsh has a knack for setting up twisted situations, and he nicely counterbalances the horror by filming everything in a straightforward, muted style.
07/07/06
The real acting sparks are generated by Hurt, delivering an absolutely sincere performance as a reformed sinner basking in God's love.
07/07/06
Top Critic While Elvis' briefly startled face isn't precisely legible, your reading is pretty much ordained.
06/24/06
The King suffers from an overbearing sense of its own self-importance.
06/24/06
So wildly and absurdly melodramatic in every way, shape and form that many viewers will be unable to decide whether it is a flat-out masterpiece or the most lurid piece of junk that they have ever seen.
06/24/06
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