The manipulation of popular characters outside the control of original creators has existed for hundreds of years, but what makes Feels Good Man especially significant is the entanglement with "fake news..."

| Feb 7, 2024

As a character study of both a creator and his unwieldy creation, there's an alluring story that’s worth the discovery.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 5, 2022

Unfortunately, that's only about 40 minutes worth of material in this wildly extended and only fitfully enlightening tale.

| Jun 5, 2021

We will be dissecting the frog (so to speak) for a long time. Where did this large wave of extreme-right political trolls come from, and why did they choose Lurie's frog creation? And when did the line between trolling and real-world harm vanish?

| Mar 30, 2021

FEELS GOOD MAN is an incredibly important and informational documentary that I highly recommend to anyone who is on the Internet or doesn't understand how things got this bad this quickly.

| Feb 23, 2021

Feels Good Man attempts to explore the myth that is 'Pepe the frog' and it does a pretty decent job.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 2, 2021

Despite some odd pacing and a tonally inconsistent focus on Furie himself, Feels Good Man is a timely and gripping examination of the dark side of the web.

| Original Score: B | Jan 29, 2021

Part cautionary tale, part culture war study and part story of the reclamation of art.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 29, 2021

Feels Good Man might not help you understand our current state as a nation, but it is a perfect record of it.

| Jan 26, 2021

...A stark reminder of how easily media can be taken out of context and warped into something evil.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 15, 2021

This comprehensive, intelligent film goes to unexpected places and, because of its subject, uses comics and animation in an organic, creative way.

| Jan 9, 2021

Manages to be harrowing on multiple, completely different wavelengths

| Nov 17, 2020

...there doesn't seem to be a nicer guy on the planet than Matt Furie...which makes Pepe the Frog and this documentary all the more unlikely, and fascinating.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 16, 2020

Seeing what happened to Furie and his chill stoner frog dude... will likely make your blood run cold. It sure makes for a chillingly effective internet-era cautionary tale.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 13, 2020

A documentary reclamation project...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 6, 2020

This engrossing documentary follows the character's gentle creator, Matt Furie, as he tries to reclaim his frog from the hatemongers.

| Nov 4, 2020

The upsetting, depressing, even frightening interviews allow a greater theme to rise as they contrast with snippets looking into Furie's life.

| Original Score: 8.3/10 | Oct 21, 2020

...a commendable deep dive, not unlike a higher-budget version of a Fredrik Knudsen video, immersing itself in the subject throughout its many, many twists and turns.

| Original Score: 17.5/20 | Oct 21, 2020

This film reminds viewers of a basic communication principle: no matter the intent of someone who puts a message into the world, once it's out there, that idea no longer entirely belongs to the messenger. Some part of meaning always lies in reception.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 19, 2020

Most interesting is a look in how the 4Chan malcontents grew into a group so antisocial it viewed the rise of Trump as its own victory.

| Oct 19, 2020