Clearly inspired by the likes of Ross McElwee and Morgan Spurlock, director Aaron Woolf artificially staged a scenario that serves as the launching pad for the film.

| Apr 21, 2023

Although the film is very much in the Morgan Spurlock-school of highly personalized documentary filmmaking, King Corn contains a considerable amount of information about how the American farming tradition has changed in the last 50 years.

| Aug 22, 2017

This smart, amiable documentary is about corn: how it's grown, subsidized, processed, and how it sneaks its way into virtually every food on grocery-store shelves.

| Aug 22, 2017

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

We learn a few things from the two daffy guys about food, nutrition, agribusiness, and government support of the latter.

| Apr 28, 2011

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

Someone pass the Fritos!

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 3, 2008

There is an interesting story here. It's just that the movie doesn't tell it very well.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 7, 2007

Engaging and illuminating.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 16, 2007

Simultaneously nostalgic and sinister, King Corn mixes full-blown Americana with fast-food follies in the Iowa heartland.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 16, 2007

The film always teaches and entertains in equal, ample measure. It's a treat -- and it's good for you.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Nov 9, 2007

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 8, 2007

entertaining 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

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 3, 2007

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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 2, 2007

King Corn becomes an indispensable supplement to Spurlock's Super Size Me.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 1, 2007

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

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 26, 2007

Absorbing...it's a lot of science and perspective to cover, yet Woolf manages to keep King Corn focused and sedate.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 26, 2007

Deftly balances humor and insight.

Full Review | Oct 23, 2007

It should be required viewing before going into a supermarket, McDonald's or your very own refrigerator.

| Oct 19, 2007