All The King's Men Reviews

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Kaleem Aftab
The List
November 3, 2018
Penn... [fails] to give Stark enough charisma to convince as a vote-winning stalwart. Thus, the transformation of Stark hardly registers.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
Joshua Starnes
ComingSoon.net
December 28, 2010
There's a good movie in here somewhere but Zaillian's muddied storytelling and lack of focus hides it beyond recall.
Full Review | Original Score: 6/10
Matthew Pejkovic
Matt's Movie Reviews
July 6, 2010
All the King's Men is a dull movie, mainly due to the fact that it is full of boring characters which are poorly written by writer/director Steven Zaillian and led by an underwhelming Jude Law.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion
August 30, 2009
Static and dreary, drained of juice and drenched in "respectable" lighting
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Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com
April 15, 2009
"All the King's Men" is a grand scale embarrassment.
Full Review | Original Score: D
Pablo Villaça
Cinema em Cena
September 6, 2008
Mesmo que não o comparemos ao clássico de 49, este filme constrange pelo roteiro confuso, pela montagem artificial, pelas atuações decepcionantes e pela trilha excessiva, salvando-se apenas a bela fotografia.
Original Score: 1/5
Brandon Fibbs
BrandonFibbs.com
February 28, 2008
...a lush melodrama about the corruptibility of us all.
Full Review | Original Score: 8/10
Jason Gorber
Film Scouts
June 21, 2007
A "shouty" film... a bit too long, a bit heavy handed with the rhetoric.
Full Review | Original Score: C+
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide
April 29, 2007
Leaves out too much of the story to really work. Why are these people doing what they're doing? If I hadn't seen the 1949 version first, I would not have known.
Original Score: 69/100
Rex Roberts
Film Journal International
February 22, 2007
As much an old-fashioned potboiler as it is a political morality tale.
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William Thomas
Empire Magazine
December 30, 2006
It's beautifully shot, acted and designed, but there's little cohesion in the story.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
Gina Carbone
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
December 2, 2006
We have a series of beautiful threads weaved together in such haphazard fashion that, despite their potential, form a surprisingly ugly quilt.
Original Score: 2/4
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Trevor Johnston
Time Out
October 30, 2006
What should have been an incisive study of the American political scene turns out a lumbering celluloid white elephant.
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Peter Bradshaw
Guardian
October 28, 2006
A Louisiana swamp of overacting and muddled plotlines sinks this cumbersome new version of Robert Penn Warren's political thriller.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon
October 28, 2006
Penn is terrific and the production values are impressive, but All the King's Men gets lost in a poorly-structured, overly complicated plot that fails to engage.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
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Stanley Kauffmann
The New Republic
October 26, 2006
The film isn't dreadful: it is just generally disappointing.
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Stella Papamichael
BBC.com
October 24, 2006
It's a typical politician's tale -- all talk and no action.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
Nick Davis
Nick's Flick Picks
October 14, 2006
Plays as a veritable autopsy of itself; to watch the movie is to watch it go wrong, to observe the tempting gleam of the film that might have been grow ever dimmer.
Full Review | Original Score: C-
Jonathan R. Perry
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)
October 13, 2006
What's worse -- a bad remake of a classic film, or just a bad literary adaptation with delusions of grandeur?
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4
Ethan Alter
NYC Film Critic
October 8, 2006
This is a misfire of almost epic proportions, a lavishly produced but wholly hollow and nonsensical adaptation of a magnificently constructed novel.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5
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