The King

His theorem is simple: If Elvis was the definitional American icon, what does that say about America?

There's nothing quite like Eugene Jarecki's "The King," an overstuffed, meditative and—at times—very strange documentary about Elvis Presley...

An ambitious state-of-the-nation vehicle...

The story of the King’s old Rolls Royce soon gives way to an exploration of fame, power, race and everything else in Eugene Jarecki’s dizzying documentary.

Just when we thought it was impossible to say something new about Elvis Presley, documentary film-maker Eugene Jarecki pulls it off, simply by taking Elvis’s old Rolls-Royce on a road trip all over the US...