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The King
Directed by
David Michôd
R
2019
2h 20m
Drama
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7.3
71%
84%
7.2
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Young Henry V encounters deceit, war and treachery after becoming King of England in the 15th century, in the aftermath of his brother's death.
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Cast of The King
Timothée Chalamet
Hal
Joel Edgerton
Falstaff / Screenplay / Producer
Sean Harris
William
Tom Glynn-Carney
Hotspur
Lily-Rose Depp
Catherine
Thomasin McKenzie
Philippa, Queen of Denmark
Robert Pattinson
The Dauphin
Ben Mendelsohn
King Henry IV
Andrew Havill
Archbishop of Canterbury
Dean-Charles Chapman
Thomas
Steven Elder
Dorset
Edward Ashley
Cambridge
Stephen Fewell
Grey
Tara Fitzgerald
Hooper
Tom Browne
Northumberland
Tom Lawrence
Westmoreland
Ivan Kaye
Scrope
Gábor Czap
Scot Soldier
Josef Davies
Beale
Roderick Hill
Cloaked Man
The King Ratings & Reviews
Mashable
Angie Han
The King is so laden with the trappings of profundity and prestige that in the end, it smothers itself to death.
Filmspotting
Adam Kempenaar
The plays are about [Hal's] youth and immaturity - his unreadiness to be king - and Chalamet captures that impetuousness.
Pajiba
Roxana Hadadi
Separate from Shakespeare's influence, The King doesn't quite work. Its greatest strength is its visual language, which focuses on the tedium of war.
Thrillist
Esther Zuckerman
All this is to say that, yes, Pattinson really is the only reason to watch The King. In a film that takes itself so SO seriously, he decided to have a little fun. His performance as the Dauphin is not necessarily what you'd call "good."
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
What should be soaring is instead lugubrious; what should be a ripping good yarn is instead dutiful and a little bit dull.
The New Republic
Philippa Snow
Having survived the trial-by-fire of emerging as a sensitive, talented actor...Pattinson is free from the tyranny of having to make "good" decisions, giving him the opportunity to make interesting ones instead.
The Atlantic
David Sims
To quote another of the Bard's royal characters, it ends up feeling like a tale full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
RogerEbert.com
Tomris Laffly
With weighty things to say about contemporary and corrupt institutions of power and even dangers of male hegemony, Michôd's non-preachy The King comes with philosophical heft and visual authority to match.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
I admire the sentiment but wish Michôd had crafted something more surprising.
Associated Press
Jake Coyle
Michôd's most clever revision is in how artfully and skillfully he renders the film's final battle at Agincourt, only to undercut it with a more disquieting concluding note. Shakespeare, robbed of its poetry and its harmony, isn't so much.
Entertainment Weekly
Leah Greenblatt
What's left is primarily a series of grand battleground set pieces - filmed crunchily, and well - and a series of consistently strong performances.
New York Post
Johnny Oleksinski
Chalamet is powerful in his first authoritative role.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
What Michôd never manages to make clear is what we are to make of this version's nationalism, its glorification of war, its ambivalence toward corrupting power and its selective, finally misguided attempt to brush off Shakespeare.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Chalamet and especially Pattinson do their best to energize and contemporize Aussie director David Michôd's amalgam of Shakespeare's Prince Hal history plays without all that, you know, Shakespeare poetry and purpose.
Refinery29
Anne Cohen
The sum of its individually compelling parts don't quite add up.
Vox
Constance Grady
[The King] is filled with macho posturing about war and kingship and the nature of power and how really, it's extremely virtuous to be extremely boring, and there is hardly any sense of humor to be found onscreen at all.
AV Club
Jesse Hassenger
Most of The King is just unadorned semi-prestige, with a few gruesome severed heads rolling around for cred.
Film Comment Magazine
Michael Sragow
"The King"'s attempt to de-mythify patriarchal aristocracy and medieval war is so blunt and single-minded that it revises the underlying history and legend out of existence.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
The unholy clash of pageantry and squalor is finely framed; warriors in silvery helmets, shot from high above, and gleaming in the murk, resemble a nest of wood lice.
Slate
Isaac Butler
The King takes Chalamet's charisma for granted, letting him lean into a self-pity so profound that you wonder why Falstaff-or anyone else-would follow him at all.
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