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100It's hugely ambitious, with a sweeping range of character types, frequently shifting moods, stylistic flourishes of many kinds, and some mighty wry satire, aimed largely at the world of psychotherapy.
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100Kings and Queen, full of passion and humor, madness and grief, is close to a masterpiece. It's like life: messy, impossible, elating, unavoidable.
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100Desplechin fearlessly dives into raw, bitter revelations and surfaces with hope as our heroes try again to get it right.
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100With all his artifice, his prodigious narrative risks and seemingly undisciplined mélange of styles and tones, Desplechin has made a film that feels more like real life than anything I've seen in years, from any source. It's a masterpiece.
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91Gripping, highly original.
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90This extravagant family melodrama, one of the highlights of last year's New York Film Festival, runs two and a half hours and never lags, so moment-to-moment enthralling are Desplechin's narrative gambits, as well as his reckless eccentricity.
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90A remarkable though sometimes frustrating film.
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90He gives these characters the time to develop, to display their nuances, to establish their relationships with each other, to talk out their destinies.
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Arnaud Desplechin's best movie to date.
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A long, messy cinematic novel full of hate, love, murder, ghosts, madness, poetry and Catherine Deneuve.
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88The film is a tower of literary and cinematic references, tangential yet somehow essential characters, and one fantastic performance after another. It's a simple movie yet is anything but.
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83It is well-acted and written with a rigorous effort to skirt cliche, and it has the savor of real life throughout.
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80The kind of brainy human comedy that only this formidable French auteur seems capable of making.
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80A true emotional epic.
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80For all its hectic comings and goings, though, Kings & Queen is superbly controlled, gracefully shot and edited, and, for its entire 150 minutes, as engrossing as its meanings are opaque.
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80A complex, boldly experimental movie plotted like a thriller and paced like a farce, Kings and Queen is category-defying film that's as smart and emotionally resonant as it is entertaining.
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80Late in his new film Kings and Queen, the wildly gifted French director Arnaud Desplechin yanks the rug from under his characters and sends both them and us reeling.
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80This enjoyable French pic welds together drama, melodrama and comedy.
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80Odd, complex and charming.
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80Both these stories, which of course develop further, are more engaging than they may sound, because Desplechin directs them so intelligently and because they are so well acted.
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75A film that unfolds like a court case in which all of the testimony sounds like the simple truth, and none of it agrees.
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75Arnaud Desplechin's sprawling drama exudes a go-for-broke determination that is frustrating and exhilarating.
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75Though overly long and difficult to digest, it's a feast you won't want to miss.
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75At times compelling, at times devastating, and at times long-winded.
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70Though frequently dazzling, Kings And Queen proves that a bunch of punchy singles don't necessarily make an album.
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70This movie, however incomplete and frustrating, is also fully alive and extraordinarily intelligent.
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