The King

Name: The King
Genre: Documentary
Released: June 22, 2018
Duration: 107 min
Rating: 70
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Chuck D., Emi Sunshine & The Rain, EmiSunshine, Emmylou Harris

2018

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Oscilloscope | Release Date: June 22, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Alec Baldwin, Chuck D., Emi Sunshine & The Rain, EmiSunshine, Emmylou Harris, Ethan Hawke, James Carville, Lana Del Rey, Maggie Clifford, Mary Gauthier, Patricia Gaines, Radney Foster, Rosanne Cash, Tony Brown

Summary: 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.

Director: Eugene Jarecki

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 107 min

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Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jun 19, 2018

It’ll be on PBS at some point, but don’t wait. Seeing it in a cinema has a hint of religious experience about it. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Jun 21, 2018

Wildly ambitious, thoroughly entertaining and embellished with some snaky moves, Eugene Jarecki’s documentary The King is a lot like its nominal subject, Elvis Presley. Read full review

Peter Travers

Jun 20, 2018

It's hard to pinpoint exactly when this random, scattershot, overreaching movie stops spinning its wheels and starts flying on a cumulative power that floors you. But when it happens – kapow! By the end we’re looking at Elvis, America and ourselves with new eyes and wondering, once again, if the truth really can set us free. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Sheila O'Malley

Jun 22, 2018

The King has a restless, kaleidoscopic, take-a-snapshot-and-move-on energy. In many ways, it's a documentary about everything, it's a documentary about "then" and it's a documentary about "right now." Read full review

Bill Goodykoontz

Jul 12, 2018

The King is one of those films that we sometimes see being made while they're making it. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Wendy Ide

Aug 26, 2018

What we get is closer to early Vegas Elvis – a little bloated and befuddled, and not as light on his feet as he needs to be. Read full review

Mark Kennedy

Jun 20, 2018

Throughout The King, you can feel Jarecki desperately working, slicing, trying to make connections. What could have been a gentle, personal travelogue is reworked and reworked until it’s often guilty of the last sin of Elvis — excess. Read full review

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