Its tone is humourous and any darkness in Glew’s personal story is breezed over to keep the story rolling and the entertainment value high.

| Feb 12, 2025

It’s a funny and enthralling story that will likely send you to see what big brands have not done the proper paperwork that could make you quite a bit more financially comfortable.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 3, 2024

One of those documentaries where the central character could easily have overpowered the narrative, but thankfully the co-directors matched his oddball energy with equally unique filmic technique

| Feb 13, 2024

Candid and every bit as sweet as a sleeve of twelve cherry-flavored Pez, Kathy represents a nurturing and encouraging spirit able to keep her partner grounded when he would otherwise zoom off into the stratosphere.

| Jul 27, 2023

By the end, you might also think this is one of the most touching love stories you have seen in years as well. The Pez Outlaw might just be the best thing on Netflix you will see all week.

| Jun 8, 2023

If you are looking for a more light-hearted documentary than the usual fare on streaming platforms, then this is an engaging, humorous, and surprisingly emotional account.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 28, 2023

The Pez Outlaw is a love letter to the quirky, an appreciation of outsiders and misfits.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 25, 2023

It’s got a real sense of pacing and storytelling that will inevitably be better than the Hollywood-ized fiction film they make out of the subject’s life.

| Jan 20, 2023

It’s a Frank Capra morality tale with product placement. Though the fanciful reenactments can be a bit much, the film’s madcap spirit and mordant insight into the workings of money, greed, ego, and power prevail.

| Nov 8, 2022

Like the candy it’s concerned with, it’s small, sweet and not exactly filling, but it will definitely leave you with a craving for more

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 25, 2022

Above all The PEZ Outlaw is wonderful because Glew seems like a fully, fearlessly self-revealed character onscreen, exasperating and lovable; when the movie takes a poignant turn in its final quarter, the emotion comes naturally.

| Oct 24, 2022

The film is fun, sweet and yet offers little to chew on - much like Pez - but it almost doesn't matter if it happened exactly the way Glew remembers it anyways.

| Original Score: B | Oct 21, 2022

It is the rare documentary that can take a subject you think you know about and make you realize you didn’t know anything about it at all. THE PEZ OUTLAW is just such a movie. You’ll never look at a Pez dispenser the same way again.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 21, 2022

A highly quirky and thoroughly enjoyable documentary about big dreams, serving a niche and the perils of taking on The Man.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 21, 2022

Like Pez, the film is charming and colorful — and perhaps too sweet.

| Oct 20, 2022

In the end, “The Pez Outlaw’s” best feature is Steve Glew; his sincerity is believable, as is his love of the hunt—especially when he speaks candidly about his loving wife, regrets, depression, and his immense happiness during those times.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 11, 2022

An outright and outrageous blast, with shrewd pacing, documentary interviews that offer both intriguing insights and playful depth, and vibrant reenactments of Steve Glew’s past exploits as a most unlikely international Pez-smuggling entrepreneur.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 7, 2022

While not exactly profound, The Pez Outlaw is a modern tall tale that handily succeeds in hooking viewers early and keeping them invested.

| Sep 30, 2022

It’s funny, sad, and endearing, and it will make you, like me, start googling Pez dispensers and where to buy them as the credits roll.

| Sep 17, 2022

The Pez Outlaw is a spy-thriller wrapped in a fascinating, oddball comedy that is all based on a true story. It's the type of documentary I am most frequently drawn to – clever subject matter with exceptional storytelling.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 26, 2022