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10/03/08
King Corn (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 20
Fresh: 19
Rotten:1
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Theatrical Release:Oct 12, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from... [More]
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There is an interesting story here. It's just that the movie doesn't tell it very well.
12/07/07
Engaging and illuminating.
11/16/07
Simultaneously nostalgic and sinister, King Corn mixes full-blown Americana with fast-food follies in the Iowa heartland.
11/16/07
The film always teaches and entertains in equal, ample measure. It's a treat -- and it's good for you.
11/09/07
A breezy diary from a pair of first-time farmers, as well as a wry rebuke to a nation devoted to eating cheaply but not necessarily well, King Corn makes its points without much finger-wagging.
11/08/07
Top Criticentertaining and even a little mischievous, it finds perverse outcomes, but no villains. It is informative, without creating partisanship, respectful without being patronizing, entertaining without being dumbed-down
11/03/07
While there's no startling news here -- most people know that high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a staple in food processing and isn't particularly good for us -- this documentary neatly, and often humorously, summarizes a very unhealthy situation.
11/02/07
Top CriticKing Corn becomes an indispensable supplement to Spurlock's Super Size Me.
11/01/07
King Corn is entertaining enough, but it's also a moral, crucially skeptical road trip down the food chain.
10/26/07
Top CriticAbsorbing...it's a lot of science and perspective to cover, yet Woolf manages to keep King Corn focused and sedate.
10/26/07
Deftly balances humor and insight.
10/23/07
Top CriticIt should be required viewing before going into a supermarket, McDonald's or your very own refrigerator.
10/19/07
Top CriticKing Corn insists that we recognize the Corn Belt's beauty and intelligence along with its somewhat self-induced plight.
10/19/07
Top CriticAaron Woolf's we-are-what-we-eat documentary King Corn is a lively introduction to the corn industrial complex.
10/17/07
Top CriticAn entertaining look at the flagship of American empty calories, King Corn is a few bushels short of being the next Super-Size Me, but brings a legitimate message.
10/12/07
Well, it's certainly one of the less blatantly compelling subjects on the non-fiction circuit, and the doc has a lower-octane approach than most, but King Corn is surprisingly absorbing and amusing viewing.
10/12/07
Sometimes obvious, but at other times quite startling.
10/12/07
A deceptively intelligent new entry in the regular-Joe documentary genre.
10/11/07
Top CriticThis is as much a thoughtful meditation on the plight of the American farmer as it is a rant against our expanding waistlines.
10/09/07
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