City of Gold

Name: City of Gold
Genre: Biography, Documentary
Released: March 11, 2016
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 72

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IFC Films | Release Date: March 11, 2016 | Not Rated

Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic Jonathan Gold shows us a Los Angeles where ethnic cooking is a kaleidoscopic portal to the mysteries of an unwieldy city and the soul of America. [IFC Films]

Director: Laura Gabbert

Genre(s): Biography, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 96 min

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A.O. Scott

Mar 10, 2016

City of Gold transcends its modest methods, largely because it connects Mr. Gold’s appealing personality with a passionate argument about the civic culture of Los Angeles and the place of food within it. Read full review

Noel Murray

Mar 15, 2016

As Gabbert alternates [Gold's] monologues with long, gliding shots of funky supermarkets and old cinemas, she makes the point these aren’t disconnected aberrations in L.A. This is the city. Read full review

Bill Goodykoontz

Mar 24, 2016

As a documentary about Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic, City of Gold is more or less an entertaining valentine to an interesting guy. As cultural archaeology, unearthing the relationship between food and a city, food and a critic, a city and a critic and a swirling stew of all the above, it's fantastic. Read full review

Peter Travers

Mar 11, 2016

In essence, City of Gold is a celebration of a critic who helped define a city by what it eats. And at a bargain price. So take notes, and dig in. Read full review

Maura Judkis

Mar 24, 2016

The film is most interesting when it uses Gold to tell the story of Los Angeles’s diversity, rather than the story of the most important stomach in Los Angeles. Read full review

Joe Morgenstern

Mar 10, 2016

Plain-spoken and unpretentious, he’s a fount of surprising information and informed opinion. Read full review

Inkoo Kang

Mar 8, 2016

Director Laura Gabbert pairs her wide-ranging, blithely fawning approach to Gold with a vision of Los Angeles as blinkered as it is tempting. Read full review

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