Deliciously funny and warming fare, for which the amazing Meryl deserves her ridiculously overdue third Oscar.
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09/11/09
Julie & Julia (2009)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:7
Rotten:4
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: Boosted by Meryl Streep's charismatic performance as Julia Child, Julie and Julia is a light, but fairly entertaining culinary comedy.
Theatrical Release:11-09-2009
Synopsis: Meryl Streep is Julia Child and Amy Adams is Julie Powell in writer-director Nora Ephron’s adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell’s Julie & Julia and My Life in France, by Julia Child with... [More]
Starring: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina
Director: Nora Ephron
Reviews for Julie & Julia
1 - 11 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top CriticA film that’s charming, funny – especially when Streep is on screen, broadcasting her superb impression of the tall, charismatic, high-pitched Child – but leaves you with a dissatisfaction with modern life that no culinary masterpiece can relieve.
09/11/09
Top CriticMeryl Streep at her most relaxed and enjoyable is a main course in herself. Pity we have to share her with a side order of Nora Ephron at her least appetizing.
09/11/09
Top CriticJulie & Julia is a highly polished piece of upmarket entertainment, brimming with beautiful interiors. If you throw in the lavish helpings of food porn it’s almost like a colour supplement come to life.
09/11/09
Top CriticA dose of stodgy comfort food in the form of a complacent, mediocre film, with an exasperatingly flaccid and anti-climactic ending.
09/11/09
Top CriticIt’s refreshing to see male performers being towered over by female leads. It’s even more refreshing to watch a film that exults in the pleasures of uxoriousness.
09/11/09
Top CriticA consummate entertainment that echoes the rhythms and attitudes of classic Hollywood, it's a satisfying throwback to those old-fashioned movie fantasies where impossible dreams do come true.
08/07/09
Top CriticJulie & Julia proceeds with such ease and charm that its audacity is easy to miss.
08/06/09
Top CriticJulie & Julia is not lacking in entertainment value, especially with the Streep performance. But if the men had been portrayed as more high-spirited, it might have taken on intriguing dimensions.
08/06/09
Top CriticJulie & Julia is a mixed blessing. You enjoy vicariously many dishes, sample the good life in France and get treated to another Streep marvel.
07/25/09
Top CriticThis middling melange of Child biopic and contempo dramedy feels overstuffed and predigested.
07/25/09
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