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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!