My King
Film Movement | Release Date: August 12, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
68
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
5
Negative:
2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisAug 11, 2016
The movie’s ability to express, with directness and humor, the insecurities of intimacy — most remarkably during the couple’s first night together — is a delight. Read full review
100
VarietyPeter DebrugeAug 9, 2016
French actress-turned-helmer Maiwenn is concerned first and foremost with her characters, who rank among the most vividly realized of any to have graced the screen in recent memory. Read full review
100
CineVueMaximilian Von ThunMay 23, 2015
Mon Roi is one of the best films of the year and an impressively realistic depiction of the highs and lows of love. Read full review
88
Washington PostAlan ZilbermanAug 25, 2016
My King brims with intimate details, adding to a sense of authenticity that is rarely found in films. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comNick AllenAug 12, 2016
Though it too readily compares to other intimate observations on life-changing connections, you could place this take by director Maïwenn somewhere between Ingmar Bergman’s masterful “Scenes from a Marriage” and Derek Cianfrance’s searing “Blue Valentine,” while never being able to forget My King's two brilliant performances from Emmanuelle Bercot and Vincent Cassel. Read full review
88
Rolling StonePeter TraversAug 12, 2016
That’s the power of My King. It sees that passion creates an unholy mess. Maïwenn doesn’t want to warm our heart, she wants to rip into it, and turn the concept of the Hollywood happy ending on its head. Read full review
80
The TelegraphRobbie CollinMay 23, 2015
This is an energised romantic drama overflowing with humour and passion. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineChuck BowenJul 10, 2016
Maïwenn fashions a bracing film about co-dependency, capturing the erotic contours of subservience and flattery. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenAug 25, 2016
The actors wrestle passionately with compelling questions about attraction and love. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinMay 23, 2015
The director, her co-screenwriter Etienne Comar and the exceptional cast led by Emmanuelle Bercot and Vincent Cassel have an acute enough eye for the manners and mores of these archetypes to make the material feel consistently fresh and alive. Read full review
67
The PlaylistJessica KiangMay 23, 2015
Maïwenn makes no apologies for liking her characters and being invested in their problems, even though in the scheme of things, they could well seem insignificant. And Cassel and Bercot reward her faith with a believable portrayal of a couple who are either the best or the worst things to ever have happened to each other, and very probably both. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonDave CalhounMay 24, 2016
Wears its heart a little too much on its sleeve. But it also manages to pack a punch, and the lead performances from Bercot and Cassel are strong. Read full review
58
The Film StageMichael SnydelAug 25, 2016
While the first half meditates on the inconsistency of intimacy and the ways that small things (e.g. close ex-girlfriends) grow to be daggers, the second half adopts a psychological severity that makes My King feel imbalanced. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyAug 11, 2016
My King is overlong and overheated, suggesting a filmmaker who’s better at getting actors to yell at each other than at judging what’s essential. Read full review
50
IndieWireEric KohnMay 23, 2015
Maïwenn's evidently tight control over her performances once again shows its strength within the context of individual scenes, where the characters' attitudes often convincingly shift from blithe to furious in a matter of minutes. But the overall arc of their developing relationship fails to convince. Read full review
40
Screen DailyJonathan RomneyMay 23, 2015
Mon Roi’s melodrama glossiness grates more than it convinces. Read full review
30
Village VoiceMelissa AndersonAug 11, 2016
The tears and recriminations, eruptions and reconciliations hold a begrudging fascination for about an hour.... After that, though, the volume is never turned down and these characters are never less than the most unendurable company. Read full review
20
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 23, 2015
Mon Roi, directed and co-written by Maïwenn (that is, film-maker and actor Maïwenn Le Besco) is an unendurable confection of complacent and self-admiring nonsense: shallow, narcissistic, histrionic and fake. Read full review
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