...this rapid-fire doc should encourage fans and casual viewers alike to check out the canon of this unique, idiosyncratic talent...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 23, 2024

Engaging, funny, and revelatory, this documentary was lovingly crafted specially for horror lovers while being accessible enough for viewers of any interest.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 27, 2021

It's an interesting watch and good for learning a few things, but it's like most documentary of its genre, it tends to feel a bit like fan worship for a lot of its runtime which will be grating to some.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 17, 2020

King Cohen is a film nerd's dream - a love letter not just to a titan in the cinema game, but to an era where, if one were so inclined, a little bit of know how and some elbow grease was all you needed to make it in pictures.

| Mar 20, 2020

Few writer-director-producers have a resume like Larry Cohen. The director of such classics as The Stuff and Hell Up in Harlem receives the credit he deserves as a genuine filmmaking maverick in King Cohen.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Oct 29, 2019

A bit of editing at the end would have made the documentary even better (some people start repeating themselves AND each other while lauding Larry), but all in all I had a lot of fun with this.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 17, 2019

King Cohen leaves you wanting to do only two things: see more Larry Cohen films and get the jingle from The Stuff out of your head.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 17, 2019

A hugely entertaining tribute to a true cinematic maverick... You will want to immediately revisit his entire oeuvre.

| Feb 20, 2019

The documentary directed by Steve Mitchell comes from a place of absolute love for this filmmaker who paved the way for many artists who came after and he inspired a generation of filmmakers to produce greatness on the fly.

| Original Score: B | Dec 16, 2018

It gives me the chance to listen to Cohen and his collaborators talk about the movies, it helps to highlight what is so special about him as an artist, and it makes me want to go back and revisit every one of his movies.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 3, 2018

King Cohen is an interesting and informative documentary of a man who should be better known in the mainstream: Larry Cohen.

| Oct 16, 2018

Mitchell is respectful of Cohen, but both men see the humor in what they're talking about, which makes for a portrait that is intensely funny and fun, as well as enlightening.

| Aug 27, 2018

highly entertaining

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 27, 2018

King Cohen is the love letter and thorough career retrospective it needs to be.

| Aug 15, 2018

All in all, King Cohen is one of the best documentaries about Hollywood to come down the pike in a very long time.

| Aug 6, 2018

... King Cohen endeavors to remove the stigma of indulging in a Cohen classic, and largely succeeds.

| Aug 6, 2018

King Cohen is here to spread the gospel, or maybe more appropriately, it's here to violently shake contemporary genre fandom at its shoulders and scream his name into legend.

| Aug 6, 2018

Larry Cohen is lauded throughout this film, as well he should be. "King Cohen" is a labor of love by a filmmaker and interviewees who "get" what he was about. So will you after seeing this great documentary about the greatest of b-movie makers.

| Aug 4, 2018

If you don't know the man, you should, and this is a lively, informative introduction.

| Aug 2, 2018

This documentary is a treasure trove for cinema lovers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2018