Review: 'The Kid Who Would Be King' is a winningly eccentric riff on Arthurian legend
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Jan 25, 2019
3 minutes
The British comedian turned writer-director Joe Cornish is what you might call a doomsday optimist: The end is always nigh in his movies, but you still get the sense that the future remains in good hands.
His debut feature, the scary and irrepressible "Attack the Block" (2011), was a science-fiction horror-comedy about a bunch of South London teenagers doing battle with aliens from outer space. It was good, grisly fun, but also entirely sincere in
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