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[+] Village Voice

100

It's all true--every magical, exhilarating, infuriating, dumbfounding, jaw-dropping second of Gordon's miniature masterpiece.
by Robert Wilonsky | Read Full Review »
[+] Entertainment Weekly

100

A funny and madly arresting new documentary.
by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
[+] Film Threat

100

It's not just one of the best documentaries I've ever seen, it's one of the best movies I've ever seen. Period.
by Pete Vonder Haar | Read Full Review »
[+] Chicago Tribune

100

Gordon's documentary proves better than 90 percent of the manufactured stories out this summer. One can breathe a sigh of relief that it was done right and not cobbled into another bad fictional comedy.
by Scott Schueller | Read Full Review »
[+] The Onion (A.V. Club)

91

Gordon's feature directorial debut mostly stops being about video-game obsession and turns into a film about what it takes to make it in America.
by Keith Phipps | Read Full Review »
[+] Baltimore Sun

91

This film about fierce competition among classic video-game players is a comic action epic in documentary form. It captures fear -- and heroism -- in a handful of dusty video games.
by Michael Sragow | Read Full Review »
[+] New York Magazine

90

Very entertaining (and doesn't overstay its welcome) but it's a little depressing to contemplate.
by David Edelstein | Read Full Review »
[+] Premiere

88

If you don't play at all, you may find yourself enjoying this film more than anyone, because you'll at least get all the laughs with none of the cringing self-recognition.
by Eric Alt | Read Full Review »
[+] TV Guide

88

Like "Air Guitar Nation," the stranger-than-fiction cast of characters is fascinating, and their high-stakes machinations are nothing short of mind-boggling.
by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
[+] New York Daily News

88

Heartbreaking and hilarious.
by Elizabeth Weitzman | Read Full Review »
[+] Boston Globe

88

A portrait of two different men whose compulsion for Donkey Kong is hilarious.
by Wesley Morris | Read Full Review »
[+] Portland Oregonian

83

One of this year's funniest movies -- and its most inspirational sports drama -- is a documentary.
by M. E. Russell | Read Full Review »
[+] The New York Times

80

The movie's "Rocky" formula proves irresistible anyway; unsurprisingly, New Line has commissioned Mr. Gordon to remake this story with actors.
by Matt Zoller Seitz | Read Full Review »
[+] LA Weekly

80

It may seem overblown when one of the gamers calls Donkey Kong a metaphor for life, but The King of Kong is just that -- a reminder of how we all have to prove ourselves to others, and the extent to which the odds are often stacked against outsiders and newcomers.
by Luke Y. Thompson | Read Full Review »
[+] Salon.com

80

Ultimately Gordon's movie becomes both a hilarious story about an unbelievable collection of arrested-teenage morons and, yes, an inspiring fable of persistence and redemption. I haven't mentioned this movie's fabulous addition to the English language yet, so here it is: the verb "to chumpatize."
by Andrew O'Hehir | Read Full Review »

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