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Film Review: 'The Kid Who Would Be King'

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‚Attack the Block‘ director Joe Cornish delivers a contemporary twist on the King Arthur legend full of retro 1980s family-film ingredients.
A likable enough, Amblin-esque update to the classic Arthurian legend, “The Kid Who Would Be King” is hardly the first time a group of adolescents have saved England from supernatural harm in a Joe Cornish movie. That said, much of the attitude and originality that drew fans to the irreverent writer-director’s inner-city alien-invasion debut “Attack […]
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