Average Rating: 8.6/10
Reviews Counted: 215
Fresh: 204 | Rotten: 11
Colin Firth gives a masterful performance in The King's Speech, a predictable but stylishly produced and rousing period drama.
Average Rating: 9.2/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 35 | Rotten: 1
Colin Firth gives a masterful performance in The King's Speech, a predictable but stylishly produced and rousing period drama.
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After the death of his father King George V (Michael Gambon) and the scandalous abdication of King Edward VIII (Guy Pearce), Bertie (Colin Firth) who has suffered from a debilitating speech impediment all his life, is suddenly crowned King George VI of England. With his country on the brink of war and in desperate need of a leader, his wife, Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter), the future Queen Mother, arranges for her husband to see an eccentric speech therapist, Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush).
Nov 26, 2010 Limited
Apr 19, 2011
$138.8M
The Weinstein Company
All Critics (215) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (206) | Rotten (11) | DVD (13)
The King's Speech is simultaneously cozy and majestic.
It is an intelligent, winning drama fit for a king -- and the rest of us. And this year, there were far too few of those coming from Hollywood.
OK, sure, "The King's Speech" obviously is feel-good Oscar bait, but who cares? It's also a terrific movie with two fantastic performances at its heart.
Put aside the finery, eloquent dialogue and sublime acting, and you have a marvelous odd couple farce featuring Bertie and Lionel, a timid, tongue-tied king and a casual, self-assured commoner.
One of the best films of 2010...
The King's Speech is a warm, wise film -- the best period movie of the year and one of the year's best movies, period.
( ... ) a British film where the swearing isn't a bolted-on means of trying to appeal to the cloth-eared.
The story is consistently fascinating (though it certainly plays rather fast and loose with historical facts) whilst Hooper manages to wring dramatic tension out of some of the most seemingly mundane incidents.y.
Firth is simply magnificent ...
A humorous look at an oft-ignored section of British history.
This is a film worth talking about.
It is a rare movie indeed that successfully uses empathy rather than sympathy. We feel what the character feels, instead of feeling for them.
This movie took me by surprise -- I had no idea that it that would be the most satisfying, affecting buddy movie of the recent past.
A British production featuring meticulous period detail, outstanding performances from Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, and Helena Bonham Carter, and inventive staging and visuals
At its best when highlighting the delightful badinage between Colin Firth as the recently-crowned King George VI and Geoffrey Rush as his not so humble servant, a charming rogue if there ever was one.
Movies like this allow you to fall in love with a historical family you probably wouldn't want to be friends with otherwise.
Why did Edward abdicate again? What am I, a history professor?
Can't be defined by its 'R' rating or by the 'period piece' label. It may be about a king, but it speaks to the royalty in all of us.
The threat of world war looms outside the door, but the movie is really about one man, at war with himself, and the people close to him who helped him find peace.
Witty script, quirky performances, flawless casting and wonderfully inventive cinematography. Golf claps all round.
If it might typically be hard to feel too terribly sorry for one of the most privileged human beings ever to walk the planet... Firth more than makes up for that with what is one of the great performances not just of this year but in cinema history.
I'm just going to be honest and say that I don't always like to go see movies that make me feel stressed or sad. This may sound like a reasonable statement, yet people go everyday to see movies that are terribly sad and stressful and usually make you cry. These usually win Oscars. You may be thinking, "what about feel
March 17, 2011Super Reviewer
Every now and then, there's a feel-good film that comes along and what should be a cliche, dull movie, is far from that; "The King's Speech" is one of these movies; it excels in every form and does it with brilliant results. Yeah, its fixated on a familiar type of storytelling, but at the core, there's a very sentiment
January 20, 2011Super Reviewer
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