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22 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesChicago ReaderJ.R. JonesThis engrossing documentary widens to consider the phenomenon of viral videos and the humiliation they can bring to their sometimes unsuspecting victims.
- 80VarietyEddie CockrellVarietyEddie CockrellA curious young helmer tracks down the profanity-spewing subject of a two-decade-old viral video with results at once scabrously funny and uncomfortably poignant.
- 75The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasSteinbauer's eagerness to draw information--and, let's face it, exclusive new clips--out of his recalcitrant subject borders on exploitation at times, but the smart, cagey Rebney has an agenda of his own that Steinbauer can't entirely control or define. The documentary gives him a forum to be his funny, irreducible self, which is a luxury the accidentally famous are rarely afforded.
- 75New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickA highly entertaining first-person documentary .
- 70Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanRebney's good-natured calm and apparent indifference to his Internet notoriety initially foils the filmmaker. Hoping to re-create the original clip reel, Steinbauer is nonplussed and abashed. Was it all an act--or is this? Pay your money and find out.
- 70MovielineMichelle OrangeMovielineMichelle OrangeAn earnest and occasionally poignant attempt to penetrate Rebney's potent man-on-fire image and explore the impact of becoming an Internet sideshow.
- 70SalonSalonTracking down Rebney proved to be no easy task. But Steinbauer found him, living on a mountain in California, and spends much of the film trying to get Rebney to reckon with his unsought celebrity, which Rebney had only recently become aware of.
- 60Time OutDavid FearTime OutDavid FearWhat started as an underground goof ended up becoming a fascinating foul-mouthed curio; though it aims for profundity, Winnebago Man seems destined to suffer the same fate.
- 60The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenA small, mildly entertaining documentary.
- 60Boxoffice MagazineMark KeizerBoxoffice MagazineMark KeizerThe movie is really best enjoyed as a fun little addendum to a profanity-laden chapter in New Media history.