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The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

Documentary Diehard video game fans compete to break World Records on classic arcade games.
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United StatesUnited States Village Voice "It's all true--every magical, exhilarating, infuriating, dumbfounding, jaw-dropping second of Gordon's miniature masterpiece." POS
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Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
"A funny and madly arresting new documentary." POS
United StatesUnited States Chicago Tribune "Gordon's documentary proves better than 90 percent of the manufactured stories out this summer. One can breathe a sigh of relief that it was done right and not cobbled into another bad fictional comedy." POS
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AV Club
AV Club
"Gordon's feature directorial debut mostly stops being about video-game obsession and turns into a film about what it takes to make it in America." POS
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Baltimore Sun
Baltimore Sun
"This film about fierce competition among classic video-game players is a comic action epic in documentary form. It captures fear -- and heroism -- in a handful of dusty video games." POS
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
"A sprightly new documentary that's as compulsively watchable as the vintage video game it focuses on is addictive." POS
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