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10
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Critic Score

72
Critics' score based on 26 reviews.
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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.Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly

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.Full Review

Ray Bennett
The Hollywood Reporter

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

Scott Tobias
The Onion (A.V. Club)

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.Full Review

Eddie Cockrell
Variety

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

Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
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