the most accurate picture of America that this American can imagine: a land of competing narratives, where the only thing everyone can agree on is that lots of stuff has gone wrong, even if we can't agree on exactly what that stuff is
it's a meditation on the current American crisis that's built around a revisionist portrait of Elvis Presley. The two elements --America and Elvis-- come together in ticklish, surprising ways that expand and delight your perceptions
a documentary as sprawling and brilliant and flawed as the country it traverses, Eugene Jarecki's "The King" is a fascinatingly overstuffed portrait of America in decline
by Alissa Wilkinson [Vox ]
