David Lamble Bay Area Reporter Jun 2, 2020

It's a gently amusing, surreal vision that dishes up hard truths in an unsentimental but never brutal fashion.

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Ellie Lucas From the Front Row Jul 6, 2019 3.5/4

A captivating, heartwarming, and ultimately life affirming celebration of what makes us human.

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Steve Erickson Gay City News Mar 8, 2018

... the film dishonors the history it glides through by lacking any sense of real danger.

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Hank Sartin Time Out Nov 16, 2011 3/5

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David Fear Time Out Nov 16, 2011 4/5

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Wally Hammond Time Out Nov 16, 2011 3/5

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Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly Sep 7, 2011 A-

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Peter Rainer Christian Science Monitor Nov 21, 2008 A

The world it depicts is too dangerous and too lovely to classify.

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Jonathan F. Richards Film.com Nov 10, 2008

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.

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Larry Ratliff San Antonio Express-News Oct 24, 2008 3/4

I Served the King of England plays like a combination of Life Is Beautiful and Forrest Gump.

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Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune Oct 18, 2008 2.5/4

Tasty enough but inoffensive even when it should offend, provoke, startle.

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Peter Bradshaw Guardian Oct 18, 2008 2/5

The pseudo-sensuality is annoying and the supposed absurdism and satire are flimsy.

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Jean Lowerison San Diego Metropolitan Oct 18, 2008

[A] delightful, lighthearted satire, a quirky story of fantasy, wealth and pretty women with exposed nipples.

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James Verniere Boston Herald Oct 18, 2008 A-

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Doris Toumarkine Film Journal International Oct 13, 2008

This inventive, charming picture-perfect picaresque tale of an ambitious young Czech rascal scrambling in the pre-Nazi and wartime eras marks a welcome and victorious return for Jiri Menzel, whose last major conquest was his 1967 Oscar-winning debut, C

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Robert W. Butler Kansas City Star Oct 10, 2008 3/4

Amelie meets The Pianist in I Served the King of England, one man's surreal journey through 30 years of Czech history.

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Jeff Vice Deseret News (Salt Lake City) Oct 9, 2008 2.5/4

In the end, I Served the King of England is doomed to fail by comparison. Ironically, they are comparisons that the film itself keeps making.

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Rob Thomas Capital Times (Madison, WI) Oct 7, 2008 4/4

"I Served the King of England" is like an endless feast, featuring one spectacular course after another. Somehow, you never get so full that you want to push yourself away from the table.

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John Beifuss Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Oct 6, 2008 3.5/4

Celebrates the pleasures of life while acknowledging its tragedy and absurdity... Its attitude might be described as good-natured fatalism.

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