On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 94% of 34 critics' reviews are positive.The website's consensus reads: "Hard-hitting and honest yet sensitive, King Jack is an uncommonly affecting coming-of-age drama and a powerful calling card for debuting writer-director Felix Thompson."[5]Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 72 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[6]
In the Los Angeles Times, Michael Rechtsaffen wrote that "thanks to a strongly rooted lead performance by Charlie Plummer as a 15-year-old small-town kid who's well on his way to a stint in juvenile detention, "King Jack" still strikes a resonant chord."[7] On IndieWire, David Ehrlich wrote that "writer-director Felix Thompson's first film is a sensitive and self-possessed debut that clocks in at 76 minutes and doesn't waste a single one of them"[8]
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