All the King's Men
Sony Pictures Releasing | Release Date: September 22, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
37
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 37 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
20
Negative:
13
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38
New York PostLou Lumenick
Lethally dull and self-important remake. Read full review
38
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Yet even the language, finally, becomes as inauthentic as the accents. Read full review
38
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Overthought, overwrought and thuddingly underwhelming, this high-profile misfire makes a congealed gumbo out of Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer-winning 1946 novel and the Oscar-winning 1949 movie that followed it, sinking a classy cast in the goo. Read full review
33
The A.V. ClubNoel Murray
The movie's more damnable problem is it irrelevance. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
I'd take almost any colorful-character shtick over the gloomy gravitas that settles over All the King's Men early on and never leaves. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Despite an A-list cast and director, it's astonishing how bad this movie is. Read full review
30
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
Nothing in the picture works. It is both overwrought and tedious, its complicated narrative bogging down in lyrical voiceover, long flashbacks and endless expository conversations between people speaking radically incompatible accents. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
The unfocused story is so bereft of any clear sense of period or location that the political melodrama sometimes seems to be taking place inside a cigar box. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Kathy Baker, as Burden's elegantly sodden mother, shows the only sign of interpretive life in this stiff-jointed enterprise. She has about five minutes on screen; she's lucky that way. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
A handsome, sincere, well-meaning bore. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleRuthe Stein
Recalling the earthiness Broderick Crawford brought to the original, I couldn't help thinking Gandolfini should have been cast as Willie. Read full review
20
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Both the performance and the movie around it are virtually incomprehensible. Read full review
10
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
What a botch. All the King's Men, a remake of Robert Rossen's classic 1949 film about the rise and fall of a Southern demagogue, has no center, no coherence, no soul and no shame.
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