King of the Corner
Ardustry Home Entertainment | Release Date: June 17, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
55
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
9
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
King of the Corner is not plot-driven. It's like life: just one damned thing after another Read full review
75
New York PostLou Lumenick
A witty and wise midlife comedy, not only represents Peter Riegert's debut as a feature director but gives this gifted veteran performer his juiciest big-screen role in quite some time. Read full review
70
Washington PostDesson Thomson
A warm, unexpectedly moving portrait of a man on the verge of what could either be a dreadful or delightful second chapter. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneAllison Benedikt
Moments of this film reminded me of Alexander Payne's great library of male dysfunction -- "Election," "About Schmidt," "Sideways" -- not because King of the Corner actually reaches Payne's plane, but because I wish it had tried. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jason Anderson
The mild but affable story of an ad man's midlife crisis, King of the Corner is an actor's film in every way. Read full review
60
Chicago ReaderJoshua Katzmann
Riegert and his cowriter, Gerald Shapiro, breathe some fresh air into the material with their credible characters. Read full review
60
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
I've never quite figured out what the poker-faced Peter Riegert does as an actor, but his matter-of-fact minimalism is always funny and affecting. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
Warm and wise comedy of middle-age malaise. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
It's all pleasant but fairly unimportant, and then -- POW -- comes the great scene, almost out of nowhere. Read full review
50
VarietyDennis Harvey
Lacks the stylistic attention to psychological distress that might have lent it maximum impact. Instead, the pic is amiable, kinda charming, visually routine, and incisive in individual sequences. Read full review
50
Village VoiceAkiva Gottlieb
An average film starring an average character actor, but maybe that's the point. This is a story about the benefits of just showing up. Even at its most sentimental, Riegert's pet project possesses a lived-in integrity that nearly offsets the staleness of the material. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
King of the Corner has been adapted from Gerald Shapiro's "Bad Jews and Other Stories" and suffers from an odd, disjointed quality. Read full review
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
Peter Riegert's is a labor of love film where you feel love much stronger than you feel the film. Read full review
40
The A.V. ClubTasha Robinson
It's a low-key actor's showreel, harmless and toothless and sleepy. It'd go pretty well with a glass of warm milk. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
But look up the word "slight" in the dictionary and you could find a still from this film. Read full review
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