Anna and the KingMovie Reviews



Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 75
    New York Daily News | Jami Bernard

    If you're seeking transcendent love this season, skip the morose "End of the Affair" and go with Anna and the King. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Examiner | Walter Addiego

    Entertaining but predictable, and too long. Read full review

  • 75
    Baltimore Sun | Ann Hornaday

    Will remind filmgoers that one of the chief pleasures of going to the movies is a good old-fashioned swoon Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Tribune |

    In the end you feel like you've been taken on a pleasing, professionally run tourist trip that let you enjoy the sights without ever really inhabiting the land. Read full review

  • 75
    Boston Globe | Jay Carr

    A big, handsome throwback to star-powered historical costume movies. Read full review

  • 63
    Philadelphia Inquirer | Carrie Rickey

    Yun-Fat is magnetic and majestic, and the story, no matter that it is not entirely true, continues to fascinate. Read full review

  • 59
    Mr. Showbiz | Kevin Maynard

    Despite good performances and moments of spectacle, it seems to go on longer than the Cultural Revolution. Read full review

  • 58
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    It's a painstakingly correct update of what is, let's face it, one of the least culturally correct love stories ever to be mythologized by Hollywood. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle | Bob Graham

    Before it runs off track--it does have some spectacular moments. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Andy Seiler

    The movie is something of a white elephant itself, a luxuriant, lumbering behemoth. It is pleasant, occasionally amusing - and often dull. Read full review

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