The King's reviews
Media reviews
Indiewire
A documentary as sprawling and brilliant and flawed as the country it traverses, Eugene Jarecki?s The Promised Land is a fascinatingly overstuffed portrait of America in decline.
The Guardian
Jarecki uses Elvis Presley?s career and influence to help us make sense of fame, power, corruption, self-destructive behaviour and pretty much all the other ills of the world.
The Wrap
Is that kind of movie ? big, bold and overreaching, in love with but also skeptical of its own central metaphor of Elvis? career as a version of America?s own history."
Variety
It?s an essay in the form of an investigation. Yet it?s the definition of tasty food for thought.
Los Angeles Times
The end result is sprawling and often unfocused, with a reach that exceeds its grasp.
The Hollywood Reporter
It?s as if Jarecki has made two films and put them through a digital blender.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote