29
Metascore
11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- Over the last couple of reels the film shakes off its self-conscious inhibitions and displays some healthy unruliness, and just as we're warming to a group of characters whose indulgences have been not only culinary but emotional, it's all over.
- 50New York PostFarran Smith NehmeNew York PostFarran Smith NehmePretty and pleasing, but no more. A bon-bon, not a meal.
- 50RogerEbert.comSusan WloszczynaRogerEbert.comSusan WloszczynaInstead of focusing on gastronomic nirvana, this listless culinary drama feels and looks more like a glossy European travel commercial.
- 40Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenLos Angeles TimesSheri LindenDirector Roger Gual presents little in the way of tantalizing culinary visuals, and that leaves the paper-thin characters as the main course.
- 33The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloThe A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloDoesn’t even remotely qualify as flavorful. Among other demerits, this is the rare foodie movie that doesn’t seem to care much about food.
- 30The DissolveDavid EhrlichThe DissolveDavid EhrlichThe film is so busy attending to all its people that it never manages to adequately serve any of them.
- 30The New York TimesDaniel M. GoldThe New York TimesDaniel M. GoldRoger Gual’s half-baked film hopes to split the difference between romantic comedy and foodie delight but fails at both.
- 30VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangBringing together some of the least compelling dinner guests in recent memory at a world-class restaurant that’s about to permanently close its doors, this blandly seriocomic misfire from Spanish co-writer/director Roger Gual is too lazy to rise to the level of farce, too banal and insincere to work as drama.
- 20Village VoiceNick SchagerVillage VoiceNick SchagerA mushy concoction that's not only unfulfilling, it's gag-worthy.
- 12Slant MagazineClayton DillardSlant MagazineClayton DillardThere's a sinister, even insidious quality to a film that insists upon using incessant food montages not as a source of passion, but fodder for class-based self-congratulation.