Worth seeing for the performances, but the endings of both stories are oddly unsatisfying and it never really comes together as a single film.
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09/11/09
Julie & Julia (2009)
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Reviews Counted:192
Fresh:143
Rotten:49
Average Rating:6.7/10
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
Ephron reunites with Streep for this slightly overlong and very girly drama based on two true stories, both of which are involving and well-played. The comedy is earthy and real, and the film looks good enough to eat.
09/11/09
The ham, madam? It's very much on, in this bland gastro-mantic comedy that needs much less sugar and a hell of a lot more bite.
09/11/09
Julie & Julia serves up two true stories for the price of one, with results that are only half-way satisfying.
09/11/09
Neither story here quite stands up by itself, and they don’t quite gel together either -- even as the film wraps, it feels as if there’s a course missing.
07/25/09
Poderia ser descrito como dois médias-metragens montados paralelamente num único longa %u2013 e o fato é que, por mais adorável que Adams seja, é a história protagonizada por Meryl Streep que segura o projeto.
11/27/09
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10/26/09
What makes this film memorable and pleasurable, above all, is the ebullient performance of Meryl Streep as Julia Child, unlikely culinary trailblazer and TV star.
10/08/09
As food movies go -- and they've become a genre of their own -- this one may be a little too rich but it's full of delights.
10/08/09
Ebullient, witty, and wonderfully warm-hearted Julie & Julia is a celebration of how to live life to the full.
10/08/09
Another patchy effort from director Nora Ephron who doesn’t quite get a grip on this potentially fascinating story.
10/08/09
Like a beautiful home cooked meal, Julie & Julia is not perfect by industry standards, just warm, comforting and very, very enjoyable.
10/08/09
Nora Ephron serves up a hearty silver-service banquet with a story that links the lives of two exceptional American women.
10/05/09
With great panache, it celebrates butter, bravery, and believing in oneself, all excellent things, brilliantly executed
10/04/09
It's a delicious, irresistible film whose primary exuberance and pull is created by the combined forces of Meryl Streep and Amy Adams %u2013 their second pairing after Doubt, in which they also hit the acting jackpot
10/02/09
Who cannot relate to Julia enrolling in the all-male Cordon Bleu Cooking School, crying buckets as she practises chopping mountains of onions?
10/02/09
An adorable and entertaining film that is appealing to the appetite.
09/11/09
Like a souffle. Fluffy and delicious, and often this close to collapsing.
09/10/09
This kind of film should teach you something about the art of cooking and make you hungry. It does both and the results, while not overpowering are sweet and succulent.
09/08/09
Meryl Streep's performance brings Julia Child to vivid life ... As Nora Ephron herself has said: "She plays all of us better than we play ourselves."
09/01/09
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