| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

You could hardly call it a paragon of impartial filmmaking, but this is still a compelling and immersive glance into the nature of competitiveness and the corrupting aspects of fame.

| Original Score: 4/6 | Jun 5, 2008

An engrossing story that plucks at the heartstrings just as hard as it pummels the fire buttons.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 5, 2008

Benefits immeasurably from a cast of colorful supporting players, as well as a taut narrative that builds to a surprisingly tense climax.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 7, 2007

Is there anything more tiresome than watching people play video games? Seth Gordon's documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters answers that question with a decisive yes: watching a movie about people playing video games.

| Dec 7, 2007

The King of Kong is as winning, sweet, and occasionally disturbing a documentary about people for whom time has stopped somewhere around 1982 as you'd ever want to see.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 7, 2007

A terrifically entertaining documentary about an unlikely subject.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 7, 2007

Hilarious and eye-popping.

| Original Score: 3.5/ | Dec 7, 2007

Wonderful, hilarious documentary.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 4, 2007

Directed by Seth Gordon, the film illuminates and draws you into a subculture you never knew existed and makes you genuinely care about its characters.

| Original Score: A | Sep 14, 2007

Nerds rule.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 14, 2007

The big laughs here come from the subjects' self-absorption.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 14, 2007

With the results up in the air until the very end of the film, you will care who wins the goofy contest.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 14, 2007

A classic video-arcade game becomes the means of an epic struggle in this funny, surprisingly poignant video documentary.

| Sep 14, 2007

One of the most fascinating films of the year, and it deserves an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary.

Full Review | Aug 27, 2007

A documentary that is beyond strange.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 24, 2007

A pretty great trip down memory lane, even if you were one of the cool kids who managed to avoid the arcade scene.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 24, 2007

Take maniacal classic video game champion Billy Mitchell, questionable video game world-record organization Twin Galaxies and unemployed dad Steve Wiebe vying to usurp the champ and you've got a great story.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 23, 2007

Not since 300 have I seen such manly mano-a-manoing as the iron clash of wills in the documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 20, 2007