Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution
First Run Features | Release Date: October 16, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
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Mixed or average reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
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2
Mixed:
4
Negative:
1
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75
NPRBob Mondello
By and large, the tone is gentle, the music French, and the food shot so delectably that you can all but smell the freshly baked bread. Read full review
70
The New York TimesMike Hale
Takes a pragmatic, health-based approach, buttressed by frightening statistics about cancer rates among children, that’s a refreshing change from the moral and high-cultural preening that sometimes enter this debate in America. Read full review
60
Time OutGabriella Gershenson
Frightening statistics punctuate the film like death knells. Read full review
60
VarietyJohn Anderson
Will have to overcome an unfortunate title and competition from this year's other nutrition-oriented titles, though it's a natural for the crunchy crowd. Read full review
50
Village VoiceAaron Hillis
Jean-Paul Jaud's indignant doc is equally worthless for preaching the merits of organic chow via an emotionally reactive argument instead of an investigative one. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubNoel Murray
Jaud isn’t telling a story so much as he’s making a case, and while his case is persuasive, it doesn’t really work as a movie. The information in Food Beware could fit just as easily--and just as effectively--into a pamphlet. Read full review
12
New York PostKyle Smith
If anything is frightening here, it's the scenes of the small children being indoctrinated into an organic lifestyle and being made to sing, at least three times, a song about the evils supposedly lurking in the environment around them. Read full review
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