An Australian Cures Defect in King's Speech

2 January 1937, The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982), page 12

…WE CAN ONLY DO THE RIGHT AS WE SEE THE RIGHT: Let me be clear at the start -- The King's Speech  is a very good movie. It is professional in every way, well-acted from the top to the bottom, and is suitably moving.  On this blog's Chock Full of Firthy Goodness meter, it gets a 10 out of 10, and if they were to award an Oscar for Most Verisimilitudinous Movie it should win. But Best Picture? Really? It is, as Linda Holmes has noted, a film which shares many of the same rhythms as The Karate Kid  and every other sports-underdog film, which is funny because what I was expecting was essentially the British remake of Good Will Hunting  ... only you never get the italicized It's Not Your Fault! scene. There is nothing terribly ambitious about the filmmaking or screenplay -- it just does what it does exceedingly well. Among those things are the sur-supporting performances, and here I'm not talking about Helena Bonham Carter (nominated, really?…