Critic Reviews

• Stephen Holden, New York Times

  If social satire that elicits scornful laughter is your kind of humor, "King Kelly" will have you doubled over with guilty guffaws.

• John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter

  Cynical sexploitation neither thrills nor entertains.

• Matt Singer, Time Out New York

  Neel has hit upon a compelling reason for the found-footage gimmick: to indict a narcissistic generation who think their phones make them royalty.

• David Noh, Film Journal International

  One of the cleverest, funniest and most appallingly true films of the year.

• Eric Kohn, indieWIRE

  It's an unflinching update to media scholar Neil Postman's prophetic claim about the deadly impact of television on cultural identity: Smartphones in hand, we face the danger of filming ourselves to death.

• Alison Willmore, AV Club

  King Kelly is a broad indictment of the emptier side of self-documentation and a more nuanced one of the Internet as a source of affirmation.

• Diego Costa, Slant Magazine

  The film decides very early on, as part of its premise, to reduce Louisa Krause's King Kelly to a one-dimensional narcissist.

• Rob Hunter, Film School Rejects

  King Kelly is a film worth seeking out for fans who like social commentary mixed intelligently with entertainment.

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