Metacritic Movie Ratings
King Corn Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 91

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman

  Aaron Woolf's we-are-what-we-eat documentary King Corn is a lively introduction to the corn industrial complex.

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• 70

  out of 100

  VarietyDennis Harvey

  No doubt inspired to some degree by "Super Size Me," this equally engaging, slightly better-crafted documentary deftly balances humor and insight.

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• 70

  out of 100

  Village Voice

  King Corn will put you off corn for a long, long time, but this is as much a thoughtful meditation on the plight of the American farmer as it is a rant against our expanding waistlines.

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• 60

  out of 100

  Los Angeles Times

  King Corn is entertaining enough, but it's also a moral, crucially skeptical road trip down the food chain.

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• 50

  out of 100

  The New York Times

  Mr. Cheney and Mr. Ellis are so pleasantly nondescript that they make no particular impression. As a result, all the time spent on autobiographical detail and personal banter hampers the film's urgency, and plays like an awkward attempt to justify a format that the filmmakers are too self-effacing to exploit.

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