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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Tasty enough but inoffensive even when it should offend, provoke, startle. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: An extravagant, visually stunning feast of sensory delights, Jiri Menzel's winsome comedy, set in World War II-era Prague, pirouettes along a beguiling but treacherous line between horror and whimsy. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Why can't Americans make comedies as playful but serious as Jiri Menzel's I Served the King of England? Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The deft physical comedy is a pleasure, though the leering chauvinism becomes more embarrassing as the movie progresses. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: The movie's main appeal is its special comic flavor -- a zesty fusion of picaresque adventure, absurdist whimsy and Chaplinesque grace. Read more
Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: The film's whirl of history can be a bit vague at times, but that's a forgivable fault when your senses are so delightfully overwhelmed. Read more
Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com: The movie is filled with wonderful moments, set pieces of absurdity, and a richness of humor. But underneath, Menzel and Hraba have a wry and sometimes painful story to tell of the history of their country in the 20th century. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Forty years after his breakthrough, Menzel has returned with I Served The King Of England, and it's like he never left. Read more
Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic: This episodic, picaresque film is one delightful surprise after another, a complete joy to watch. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The moral translates darkly and it translates well. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: 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 more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: The world it depicts is too dangerous and too lovely to classify. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: I Served the King of England should be a brilliant picture, one last testament to the intertwined sensibilities of two brave artists. Should be, but isn't. Read more
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: Though the pervasive air of light-hearted irony sometimes feels incongruous, the movie is never slow or dull, thanks to a playful series of slo-mo fantasy sequences. Read more
David Denby, New Yorker: Jiři Menzel's I Served the King of England is a Czech national epic served up with champagne and truffles. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: A film as unique as this is a gift that shouldn't be ignored. And if Menzel once again finds the audience he deserves, we won't have to wait years for another. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: I Served the King of England ends up a curious combination of raunchy merriment and malignant undercurrents. Read more
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Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: With equal parts ribaldry and revelry, Menzel tells the story of the manchild who rises from street vendor to waiter to hotelier. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It's a film filled with wicked satire and sex both joyful and pitiful. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: An elegant, ironic fable with literary origins (a novel by Bohumil Hrabal) that belongs to a distinctive middle-European artistic tradition with a puckish spirit that sometimes seems sweet and at other times ruthless. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: You are swept away by the beauty of individual moments and by Barnev's extraordinary performance, which beautifully serves I Served the King of England. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Transforming the calamitous past into the springboard for sexy, satirical fantasy, Menzel tells his tale through the experiences of Jan Dite, a waiter fixated on his dream of becoming a hotel owner and millionaire. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Most movies of this kind would lead towards redemption of sorts. Menzel prefers quiet introspection to loud conversion, and that's both a strength and weakness of this movie. Read more
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: I Served the King of England may not be a totally riveting movie, but it is, in its gently insinuating way, a curiously rewarding one. Read more
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic: The minor protocols and major assaults of the characters are fused, paradoxically, by a truly lyrical talent. Read more
Aaron Hillis, Village Voice: Do away with the clever style and you're still left with a rousing picaresque of life's beautiful-sad ironies. Read more