Mr. K (film)

Mr. K, a traveling magician, finds himself in a Kafkaesque nightmare when he can’t find the exit of the hotel he has slept in. His attempts to get out only pull him deeper inside, entangling him further with the hotel and its curious inhabitants.^[2]

The film is a Norwegian-Belgian-Dutch co-production by Lemming Productions along with A Private View and The Film Kitchen and it had the participation and funding from Netherlands Film Fund, The Netherlands Film Production Incentive, CoBO Fund, AVROTROS, Creative Europe, LevelK, Eurimages, Screen Flanders, Flanders Audiovisual Fund, Belgian Tax Shelter and Norsk Filminstitut.^[3][4]

In April 2023, the project was revealed to have wrapped filming in the Netherlands.^[3]

The film premiered in the Platform Prize competition of the 49th Toronto International Film Festival on 6 September 2024.^[5][6] It also played as part of the Flash Forward program of the 29th Busan International Film Festival and competed in the official selection at the 57th Sitges Film Festival.^[7][8] It was released in the Netherlands on 16 January 2025.^[9]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 79% of 19 critics' reviews are positive.^[10] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 56 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.^[11]

In a review for RogerEbert.com, Simon Abrams gave the film two out of four stars, writing "there’s not much to Mr. K beyond its second-hand surrealism and strained counter-mythmaking", though he found Glover believable in the titular role.^[12]