The King's reviews
Media reviews
The Playlist
It?s a feat that speaks to the deftness and intelligence of the approach that Michôd and Edgerton take with their writing and direction, giving us an epic period piece that actually fulfills much of that ambition.
The Hollywood Reporter
This is a large-canvas treatment both epic and intimate in scale. The performances also are deserving of the full big-screen impact, led by a characteristically whip-smart Timothée Chalamet.
The Wrap
'The King' is a film full of surprises: it?s a saga that strays both from history and from Shakespeare in its tale of power and betrayal; it brilliantly casts Timothée Chalamet.
Entertainment Weekly
What?s left is primarily a series of grand battleground set pieces ? filmed crunchily, and well ? and a series of consistently strong performances.
Variety
The excitement of 'The King' is that Michôd lays out the consequences of combat with gruesome precision, demythologizing the battle. He has staged the film with a gloomy grandeur that sweeps you up.
The Guardian
Having begun as a careful, over-studied attempt to make a naturalistic period picture, 'The King' deepens and darkens, and gathers momentum.
Indiewire
'The King' is so eager to be a mud-and-guts epic about inherited violence and the corruption of power that it loses sight of the rich coming-of-age story at its core.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote