I Served the King of England Critic Reviews

Pirouettes along a beguiling but treacherous line between horror and whimsy.Read the full review

A virtual primer on the unique mixture of self-deprecating dark humor and personal tragedy that has been the Czech cinema's stock-in-trade since their celebrated 1960s New Wave.Read the full review

The movie's main appeal is its special comic flavor -- a zesty fusion of picaresque adventure, absurdist whimsy and Chaplinesque grace.Read the full review

The new film is so leisurely paced and overly long that what means to be at once charming yet darkly satirical lapses into tedium and barely comes alive.Read the full review

This is a dark story as well as a frothy one. But the bubble of absurdist self-absorption in which Menzel places this specimen of man-child is exquisite.Read the full review

It is a sumptuously told tale of childlike wonder in the face of darkest corruption and war, mixing high comedy, surreal sequences and genuine drama viewed from a wise, jaundiced perspective.Read the full review

It's a film filled with wicked satire and sex both joyful and pitiful.Read the full review

Viewers will be swept away by the beauty of individual moments and by Ivan Barnev's extraordinary performance.Read the full review

I Served The King Of England views diabolical events from the sidelines, something like "The Remains Of The Day" reworked as an absurdist comedy.Read the full review