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With his charming, sympathetic picture _The Lost King,_ [Stephen Frears](https://time.com/4447987/off-key-but-on-point/) digs into the fairly recent rehabilitation of the [misunderstood monarch’s legacy](https://time.com/3388217/how-king-richard-iii-died/)—as well as the 2012 discovery of his [long-lost bones](https://time.com/3753896/king-richard-iii/) beneath a Leicester parking lot. [Sally Hawkins](https://time.com/collection/american-voices-2017/5022019/octavia-spencer/) plays Philippa Langley, the real-life amateur historian instrumental in figuring out where, exactly, the last Plantagenet King had been buried. Hawkins’ Philippa suffers from [chronic fatigue syndrome](https://time.com/3706453/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-systemic-exertion-intolerance-disease/), an illness that’s not always taken seriously. She’s close with her ex-husband (Steve Coogan), though even he occasionally loses patience with her. (Coogan and Jeff Pope wrote the script for _The Lost King,_ adapting it from _The King’s Grave: The Search for Richard III,_ by Langley and Michael Jones.) An encounter with a mansplaining Shakespeare expert—who has no idea what he’s talking about—so aggravates Philippa that she’s driven to learn more about the real Richard. Eventually, she persuades a top archaeologist (Mark Addy) to dig for the ruins of the church where Richard was said to have been interred, rather ignobly, in 1485. [_Read more reviews by Stephanie Zacharek_](https://time.com/author/stephanie-zacharek/) Langley’s conviction about that burial site was largely a ripple of intuition, and Hawkins plays her as a woman forced to fight skepticism and dismissal at every turn: she radiates a brazen confidence that shines through any surface impression of timidity. In the end, Philippa’s understated persistence wins the day, leading her to a dramatic arrangement of bones that, given the fallen King’s famous spinal curvature, are almost literally shaped like a question mark—though what they really represent, at long last, is the finality of an answer. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6265895/the-lost-king-review/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6265895/the-lost-king-review/"},"headline":"Review: The Lost King Tells the Charming True Story of a Determined Amateur Historian","datePublished":"2023-03-24T14:45:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-24T15:38:15.101Z","description":"Stephen Frears directs a new movie about the woman who led the way to finding King Richard III's bones underneath a parking lot","url":"https://time.com/6265895/the-lost-king-review/","keywords":["movies","review","culturepod"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5ad9cdbef8895c08/698a3b6916d8848ad6c3bab6/THE-LOST-KING-Still-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Stephanie Zacharek","jobTitle":"Film Critic","url":"https://time.com/author/stephanie-zacharek/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5ad9cdbef8895c08/698a3b6916d8848ad6c3bab6/THE-LOST-KING-Still-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"THE LOST KING","caption":"THE LOST KING","creditText":"Graeme Hunter","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/6265895/the-lost-king-review/","name":"Review: The Lost King Tells the Charming True Story of a Determined Amateur Historian"}}]}] ```