King Kelly

Name: King Kelly
Genre: Comedy
Released: November 30, 2012
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 66

2012

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GoDigital Media Group | Release Date: November 30, 2012 | Not Rated

Summary: Made entirely from camera-phone footage, KING KELLY is a journey into hedonistic American youth culture and the YouTube generation.

Director: Andrew Neel

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 84 min

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IndieWire Eric Kohn

Nov 29, 2012

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. Read full review

Matt Singer

Nov 27, 2012

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

Alison Willmore

Nov 28, 2012

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. Read full review

Stephen Holden

Nov 29, 2012

The movie's other master stroke is the artfully unhinged lead performance of Louisa Krause as the despicable King Kelly, a character who would have been ready-made for Tuesday Weld. Read full review

John DeFore

Nov 27, 2012

Sadly, this film's POV conceit -- in which all scenes are shot by the characters, whether they have a plausible reason to hold the camera up or not -- quickly becomes as grating as Kelly herself. Read full review

Diego Semerene

Nov 28, 2012

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

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