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The Kingmaker aims a disquieting spotlight at the private life of a divisive public figure -- as well as the ways in which unchecked power seduces and corrupts.
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From her very first simper, I was hooked. Some see Imelda as one of the world's greatest villains. After this tour of her closet, that shoe fits. Dec 17, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
From her very first simper, I was hooked. Some see Imelda as one of the world's greatest villains. After this tour of her closet, that shoe fits.
Charlotte O'Sullivan
It's dark material, expertly handled. Dec 13, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
It's dark material, expertly handled.
Kevin Maher
While the film starts in wry fly-on-the-wall mode, it morphs into something weightier and surreally unsettling - Louis Theroux to Luis Buñuel in 60 minutes flat. Dec 12, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
While the film starts in wry fly-on-the-wall mode, it morphs into something weightier and surreally unsettling - Louis Theroux to Luis Buñuel in 60 minutes flat.
Robbie Collin
For all that Marcos has to be one of the most purely objectionable figures in public life anywhere in the world, she is not a fool and occasionally reveals shrewd insights about herself. Dec 12, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
For all that Marcos has to be one of the most purely objectionable figures in public life anywhere in the world, she is not a fool and occasionally reveals shrewd insights about herself.
Peter Bradshaw
"The Kingmaker" chills the soul by presenting shantytown residents and school kids who extol the Marcos regime and even endorse its eight-year period of martial law. Dec 11, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
"The Kingmaker" chills the soul by presenting shantytown residents and school kids who extol the Marcos regime and even endorse its eight-year period of martial law.
Mark Jenkins
As horror stories go, it's sometimes funny. As comedies go, it's pretty horrifying. Dec 11, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
As horror stories go, it's sometimes funny. As comedies go, it's pretty horrifying.
Nigel Andrews
Even with repeated beats, The Kingmaker still begs to be watched. What it lacks in focus it makes up in personality. Jan 12, 2020 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Even with repeated beats, The Kingmaker still begs to be watched. What it lacks in focus it makes up in personality.
Christopher James
What's interesting about the film is that at the center is this ludicrous, ridiculous figure. As the doc scratches away at this, you see grotesque horror, and I thought that was a very astute way of approaching this. Dec 30, 2019 | Full Review…
What's interesting about the film is that at the center is this ludicrous, ridiculous figure. As the doc scratches away at this, you see grotesque horror, and I thought that was a very astute way of approaching this.
Mark Kermode
The Kingmaker is less a historical biography than a timely cautionary tale. Dec 23, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
The Kingmaker is less a historical biography than a timely cautionary tale.
Brandy McDonnell
Greenfield is careful to balance the vast shoe collections and showers of banknotes with victim testimony about the notorious period of martial law Imelda's husband imposed on enemies of the state. Dec 19, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Greenfield is careful to balance the vast shoe collections and showers of banknotes with victim testimony about the notorious period of martial law Imelda's husband imposed on enemies of the state.
Hilary A White
Imelda holds our attention, throughout, even as we marvel at her constitutional inability (or, more likely, unwillingness) to think critically about her misdeeds. Dec 19, 2019 | Full Review…
Imelda holds our attention, throughout, even as we marvel at her constitutional inability (or, more likely, unwillingness) to think critically about her misdeeds.
Christopher Llewellyn Reed
It is to Greenfield's credit that she caught the mask of glamour slipping for a second, revealing the hideousness of tyranny underneath it. Dec 18, 2019 | Full Review…
It is to Greenfield's credit that she caught the mask of glamour slipping for a second, revealing the hideousness of tyranny underneath it.
Richard von Busack
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