It's a fascinating story, but the movie is a mess.

| Apr 17, 2024

A nonfiction work of swirling whimsy and rabbit-hole intrigue that eschews mere nostalgic appreciation in favor of a cockeyed hybrid approach that amuses and bemuses in equal measure.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 12, 2024

The gratifications and fascinations offered by “Kim’s Video” are inseparable from frustrations, but it may yet prove powerful if it inspires other filmmakers, historians, and critics to examine this terrain more thoroughly.

| Apr 11, 2024

This caper-slash-personal essay is an admirable endeavor that honors, above all, a filmmaker’s fixation on a medium that makes him whole.

| Apr 6, 2024

“Kim’s Video” reaches so hard for quirky profundity that it falls on its face.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 5, 2024

Less a retail history than a shaggy dog story. One that actually appears to be true. Go in knowing that and you might get a kick out of it.

| Apr 4, 2024

I wish it would get out of its own way enough to follow the more interesting and unique threads it pulls at here, but it’s too enamored with the movies it’s trying to save to separate them from the story.

| Sep 28, 2023

The documentary doesn’t work as a tribute to film. It doesn’t work as a portrait of store owner Yongman Kim. And it doesn’t work as a comedy thriller.

| Jan 31, 2023

More enthusiastic than competent, strictly speaking, “Kim’s Video” is still a tonic for lovers of psychotronic cinema in all its forms.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 27, 2023

A rollicking tale of the inextricable bonds between life and art, and the value of ensuring that the latter remains preserved for future generations.

| Jan 25, 2023

One can appreciate the dedication that went into this saga, but being obsessed with movies does not make a great visual storyteller alone.

| Jan 22, 2023

An entertaining ride which is only slightly undermined by the overuse of clumsily crowbarred movie references.

| Jan 20, 2023

A story that plays out like a low-budget caper, replete with corruption, slippery personalities, missing cash and one actual robbery.

| Jan 20, 2023

While taking itself too seriously is how this film avoids taking itself too seriously, Redmon and Sabin are never able to find a workable balance between doc intrigue and mock auto-commentary.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 20, 2023

A film-geek reverie that winds up diving down a rabbit hole of underground intrigue.

| Jan 20, 2023