The King Of Staten Island Review: 6 Ups & 3 Downs

1. It's Judd Apatow's Best Film In Years

With its more ambitious attempt to meld the sad with the riotous, and a deeply personal story to boot, The King of Staten Island is, on the balance of probabilities, Judd Apatow's best film since at least Funny People, if not Knocked Up.

While it's certainly not as funny as Trainwreck, it's also far less of a broad studio movie by design. It feels like something is actually being risked here, and it's a shame the movie never got to land in cinemas to see if audiences en masse would actually turn out for it.

Though in some respects it rakes over well-worn Apatow tropes, it also dares to explore some relatively fresh emotional concepts for the genre, and should prove at least somewhat relatable across a large cross-section of society.