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Kim's Video

Summary Physical media reigns supreme in Kim’s Video, an elegiac tribute to the iconic video store in New York City that inspired a generation of cinephiles before it mysteriously closed its doors and sent its legendary film archive to a small and slightly dubious Sicilian village for “safekeeping.” But what starts as an homage to cinema quickly...

Directed By: David Redmon, Ashley Sabin

Written By: David Redmon, Ashley Sabin

In Theaters Now
  • 2024
  • Drafthouse Films
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2024
  • Drafthouse Films
  • 1 h 25 m

Kim's Video

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Summary Physical media reigns supreme in Kim’s Video, an elegiac tribute to the iconic video store in New York City that inspired a generation of cinephiles before it mysteriously closed its doors and sent its legendary film archive to a small and slightly dubious Sicilian village for “safekeeping.” But what starts as an homage to cinema quickly...

Directed By: David Redmon, Ashley Sabin

Written By: David Redmon, Ashley Sabin

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
59
50% Positive
6 Reviews
33% Mixed
4 Reviews
17% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
59
50% Positive
6 Reviews
33% Mixed
4 Reviews
17% Negative
2 Reviews

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100
Jan 22, 2023
Kim’s Video is so delightful because Redmon and Sabin have taken a subject that might have led to wistful dead ends and follow it through to such an extent that they wound up with a gold mine of material and a documentary that plays like a bold narrative feature.
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Jan 22, 2023
Kim’s Video is endlessly entertaining, embracing the energy of the films that made Redmon, a kid from Paris, Texas, who loved movies and was thankfully able to escape to New York at the right time and find Kim’s.
By John Fink FULL REVIEW
70
Jan 22, 2023
The unexpected humour and sheer ballsiness of Redmon and Sabin’s quest make for an entertaining ride which is only slightly undermined by the overuse of clumsily crowbarred movie references.
By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW
60
Apr 4, 2024
Kim’s Video, co-directed by David Redmon and Ashley Sabin and narrated by Redmon, is less a retail history than a shaggy dog story. One that actually appears to be true. Go in knowing that and you might get a kick out of it.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
60
Jan 22, 2023
Many cinephiles are nostalgics at heart, and the story of how Kim’s Video was founded, lost and eventually found again seems to reflect a greater story about how the cinema, whether consisting of Palme d’Or winners or Z-grade slashers, has been pushed to the margins of popular culture — to be fondly remembered in documentaries like this.
By Jordan Mintzer FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 10, 2024
In trying to do too much in its mere eighty-seven-minute span, “Kim’s Video” does too little. For all Redmon’s self-described passion for movies and obsession with the Kim’s Video trove, the film has little to say about a wider view of video-store life and its relationship to the movie-viewing experience.
By Richard Brody FULL REVIEW
33
Feb 3, 2023
I hope that someone else decides to tell the story of Kim's Video again one day, because Kim's Video by Redmon and Sabin is incomplete, and a little too self-obsessed to do such an interesting story justice.
By Therese Lacson FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Carnivalesque Films
Release Date Apr 5, 2024
Duration 1 h 25 m
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Awards

Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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