This may not be a great movie, but it's a sweet, funny, enjoyable work with characters it's possible to care about and fine performances straight across the board.
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08/12/09
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
Meryl is magnificent and the humor is good, but the movie overall is fairly ordinary
08/11/09
This is yet another movie that will leave Meryl Streep's legion of fans convinced she can do anything (except sing, as Mamma Mia proved).
08/11/09
Perhaps the most disappointing thing about Julie & Julia is the lack of dramatic closure.
08/11/09
'Julie & Julia': Facile, slapdash and terribly repetitive
08/11/09
Thoroughly wonderful
08/10/09
Less Julie and more Julia, and you'd have the perfect recipe...
08/10/09
If it weren’t for the sheer brilliance of Streep and on-screen husband Stanley Tucci, this would be an easy skip.
08/10/09
Meryl Streep is terrific. She will be again the darling of the award show season.
08/10/09
If Norah Ephron had better producers around to save her from herself, "Julie & Julia" could have been the movie it wants to be--that is a Julia Child biopic with Meryl Streep doing a fantastic job as the television chef that taught America how to cook.
08/10/09
While Julie needs the Julia tale, the story of Julia would have been just fine without Julie. In fact it would have probably been better.
08/10/09
Channeling Julia Child had to be a challenge for Meryl Streep, and I do not mean just getting that distinctive voice down. Streep not only nails the voice, but the body language as well. ...And amazingly, she embodies the great chef's spirit.
08/09/09
The main reason the Child half of Julie & Julia soars is that Streep so fully inhabits the woman.
08/09/09
Poor Amy Adams has been thrown on the barbecue; by contrast, Streep's scenes as Julia Child are as delightful as a slice of watermelon.
08/09/09
Tasty mostly because Meryl Streep as the daffy American chef Julia Child nails her role with perfection.
08/09/09
A refreshingly-charming take on an enduring cultural icon and a lady now likely to go down in history as her #1 fan.
08/09/09
Schizophrenic as it is, Julie & Julia is very fortunate to have Meryl Streep holding up both hers and everyone else's soufflé to keep the proceedings passably entertaining.
08/08/09
Ephron's cuisine is clearly undercooked. Amy Adams Powell serves the main dish. It misses key ingredients causing you to long for more of Meryl Streep's scrumptious dessert.
08/08/09
Don't go see Julie & Julia, a delightful culinary treat, on an empty stomach %u2013 unless, of course, you are a masochist.
08/08/09
Julie & Julia features two dramatically inert story lines and two firecracker actresses.
08/08/09
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