TheLostKing Review: Sally Hawkins Can’t Save Dull Biopic With Misplaced Focus
While pulling from true stories can make for excellent fiction films, there's a certain way of telling them that tends to leave critics gritting their teeth, its conventions associated with the too-broad term 'biopic'. These movies are easily accessible, perhaps, but frustratingly inert, and they often live or die by their narrative's inherent intrigue and the strength of the lead performance.
Take Philippa's motivation as an example. The film acknowledges a connection between the way she feels seen as less-than because of her ME, and the way Richard III has been maligned as evil by history in part through his physical deformity, despite a lack of contemporary evidence for his famous hunchback. However, instead of mining this aspect of Hawkins' character, the movie weirdly makes it about the titular monarch.
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