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Not just anyone reviews King Corn in Mother Jones this week: writer Cassie McGettigan discloses that she’s also the daughter of the “undisputed 1998 Seneca Point, New York, Corn Eating Champion.” Uh-oh. Is this agricultural bias, or what?

Still, Mother Jones gives King Corn a good report card: “Far from a hardball indictment against the system, the film is an entertaining introduction…wide-eyed and low-tech.”

Read the full review here.

King Corn gets extended for a third week in Boston! If you haven’t yet, see the film at The Coolidge through November 8.

Tickets available online here.

King Corn heads away from the coasts and into the heartland in November, and Minnesota’s leading paper is first to give the film a warm welcome in the region of its birth.

Giving a nod to the film’s timeliness, The StarTrib says “Any other year, the film…might have found a rapt audience among fringe public health advocates…This year, obesity has become a national obsession just as Congress is embarking on one of its periodic overhauls of the nation’s farm policy.”

Read the full piece here, and then check out our new roll-out of November and December dates in the Midwest!

King Corn is proud to come to Chicago, Omaha, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, Columbus, Iowa City, St. Louis, and Columbia…and to announce a passel of additional Midwest dates soon. Stay tuned!

Traveling up the California coast, King Corn opens in San Francisco and Berkeley this week, with releases at both the Red Vic Movie House and Berkeley’s Shattuck Theaters!

We’ve heard word that corn-curious hordes may descend for opening weekend…and we’re happy to announce that director Aaron Woolf and the boys will be at both houses for Q&As on both Friday and Saturday nights. Get your advance tickets online for Shattuck Theaters here or at the Red Vic box office here for a guaranteed seat!

If you really can’t wait, read up on the film in SF360’s sneak preview review and interview, just out today, or take a peak at The Ethicurian’s generous plugs of the film in this cheery entry.

King Corn hit Beverly Hills this week, opening Friday night at the Laemmle Music Hall, and receiving high praise from the Los Angeles Times, who called the film “a moral, crucially skeptical road trip down the food chain.”

Read the Times’ capsule review here, but make sure to scroll down to find us. (The Times may try to throw you off the scent, but we promise we’re much, much more alive than Bruce Lee.)

In anticipation of its October 26th release at The Laemmle Music Hall 3 in Beverly Hills, Variety reviews King Corn, praising the film’s “handsome lensing” and “sharp editing” and calling it a doc that “deftly balances humor and insight.”

Check out the full review, and then see King Corn for yourself!

Los Angeles tickets available here.

The Washington Post reviews King Corn, calling it “lively, engaging and visually arresting”, “funny, wise, and sad”, and “required viewing by anyone planning to visit a supermarket, fast-food joint or their own refrigerator.”

That means you!

Read the full review here.

Following its sneak-preview screening at The Capitol Building, and a sell-out opening weekend at The Landmark E Street Cinema, D.C. extends King Corn’s capital-city run through November 1!

Read more about the Capitol Hill screening in the second installment of Curt’s Culinate blog, posted this week.

And buy advance D.C. tickets here to guarantee a seat this coming weekend!

King Corn sold out to Boston audiences last weekend, prompting an extended run — until November 1 — at The Coolidge Theater!

And read The Boston Globe’s glowing review here; the paper calls King Corn a documentary distinguished by “the unusual amount of warmth it lets into the mix.”

Thanks, Boston!