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Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, a musical road trip across America in his 1963 Rolls Royce explores how a country boy lost his authenticity and became a king while his country lost her democracy and became an empire.

Genre:

Documentary

Actors:

Alec Baldwin, Tony Brown, James Carville, Rosanne Cash, Chuck D., Maggie Clifford, Lana Del Rey, Emi Sunshine & The Rain, EmiSunshine, Radney Foster, Patricia Gaines, ...»

Director:

Eugene Jarecki

Country:

United States

Release:

2017

IMDb:

6.9

Quality:

Duration:

107 min

Toronto Star

Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki does something rather unusual with The King, which becomes something extraordinary and insightful.

July 12, 2018

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Hot Press

Jarecki's road-trip never reaches answers or a destination, but it's a curiously diverting ride.

September 05, 2018

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Awards Circuit

Elvis is clearly used as a metaphor by Jarecki. Undeniably progressive in his approach and his politics, the filmmaker still crafts a compelling portrait that reaches beyond simply ideology.

October 11, 2018

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Globe and Mail

Provocative and at times unwieldy, The King is something of a stoned CNN Special Report on wheels.

July 13, 2018

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Irish Times

It's all rather random, but never dull.

September 05, 2018

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New Yorker

...the movie does so in painfully simplistic terms, with encyclopedia-style snippets of history, authentically pained but insubstantial musings on "how we got here," and an odd reliance on the comments of celebrities who lack any Presley connection...

June 26, 2018

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The Victoria Advocate

Elvis Presley's 1963 Rolls-Royce serves as a metaphor for what 's wrong with this country in two-time Sundance Grand Jury winner Eugene Jarecki's new documentary.

October 09, 2018

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Boston Globe

At its best, "The King" is a fever dream of American glory and American weirdness - between which there can be an even thinner line than the one separating love from hate.

July 12, 2018

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Wall Street Journal

With an insistence that borders almost comically on obsession, [director Eugene Jarecki] forces the singer's life into a larger theory of national decline-the American dream is dead, and Elvis is the emblem of its passing.

June 28, 2018

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The Arts Desk

The King is a visual essay - it proposes a thesis, then builds a convincing argument, bouncing between Presley's life and the state of the nation.

August 27, 2018

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The Film Yap

A compelling portrait of Elvis Presley that contemplates what he meant to America and its ever-evolving dream.

October 10, 2018

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San Diego Reader

The insistence may inspire a furrowed brow here, a rolled eye there, and a shaken fist or knowing nod over yonder, but there's enough earnest comment and good music to make the effort worth seeing and chewing over.

July 27, 2018

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