King Corn Critic Reviews
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Aaron Woolf's we-are-what-we-eat documentary King Corn is a lively introduction to the corn industrial complex.Read the full review
It's fair to say that a meaner documentary might have packed more punch. But it's hard to imagine Michael Moore turning out anything that feels as pleasantly nourishing.Read the full review
Neatly, and often humorously, summarizes a very unhealthy situation.Read the full review
It should be required viewing before going into a supermarket, McDonald's or your very own refrigerator.Read the full review
No doubt inspired to some degree by "Super Size Me," this equally engaging, slightly better-crafted documentary deftly balances humor and insight.Read the full review
King Corn is entertaining enough, but it's also a moral, crucially skeptical road trip down the food chain.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
