Thursday, October 31, 2019

Netflix's The King Review

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This is a non-spoiler review for David Michôd's The King, which starts streaming Friday, November 1 on Netflix. It's currently playing in limited theatrical release.

The King is a sometimes riveting, sometimes rickety retelling of Shakespeare's Henry V, starring Oscar-nominee Timothée Chalamet as a young reluctant king who's quickly steered into a war with France by a retinue of advisors with questionable loyalties.

Directed by David Michôd (Animal Kingdom, The Rover), and written by Michôd and Chalamet's co-star Joel Edgerton (Black Mass), The King attempts to take what's commonly known about the famous play -- that King Henry (given the common name "Hal" here) was pushed into a war by a self-serving council -- and tether it to larger, modernly relevant themes about power and inherited violence.

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