"I Served the King of England" is a movie besotted with its own contradictions. An extravagant, visually stunning feast of sensory delights, Jiri Menzel's winsome comedy, set in World War II-era ...

I first got to know the Czech director Jiri Menzel through his whimsical 1966 Oscar-winner, “Closely Watched Trains.” Looking up my old review, I found a sentence that could also apply to his latest ...

Jan Dítĕ (Ivan Barnev) is a little guy — short in stature, and short on political awareness and social conscience as well. He’s just someone who wants to get rich as quickly as possible, which in the ...

For the last decade American movie audiences have been bludgeoned so mercilessly with poorly and vacuously executed whimsy (“We’re drowning in quirk,” Michael Hirschorn famously wrote in the September ...

Septuagenarian Czech filmmaker Jirí Menzel’s sixth adaptation of work by his late pal, the novelist Bohumil Hrabal (their collaboration goes back four decades and includes 1966’s Oscar-winning Closely ...

For the last decade American movie audiences have been bludgeoned so mercilessly with poorly and vacuously executed whimsy (“We’re drowning in quirk,” Michael Hirschorn famously wrote in the September ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Drenched in dreamy nostalgia and spiced with surreal whimsy, "I Served the King of England" is likely to strike most moviegoers ...

Forty years have passed since Czech director Jiri Menzel won an Oscar for Closely Watched Trains, yet the basic formula for this 2006 feature (based, like the other film, on a novel by Bohumil Hrabal) ...