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Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: April 18, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
50
San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoMay 15, 2014
Miserly on food porn but not on prefab characters, it's well short of a cinematic feast. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comSusan WloszczynaApr 18, 2014
Instead of focusing on gastronomic nirvana, this listless culinary drama feels and looks more like a glossy European travel commercial. Read full review
50
New York PostFarran Smith NehmeApr 17, 2014
Pretty and pleasing, but no more. A bon-bon, not a meal. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJonathan HollandApr 10, 2014
Over the last couple of reels the film shakes off its self-conscious inhibitions and displays some healthy unruliness, and just as we're warming to a group of characters whose indulgences have been not only culinary but emotional, it's all over. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenApr 17, 2014
Director Roger Gual presents little in the way of tantalizing culinary visuals, and that leaves the paper-thin characters as the main course. Read full review
33
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloApr 17, 2014
Doesn’t even remotely qualify as flavorful. Among other demerits, this is the rare foodie movie that doesn’t seem to care much about food. Read full review
30
VarietyJustin ChangApr 24, 2014
Bringing together some of the least compelling dinner guests in recent memory at a world-class restaurant that’s about to permanently close its doors, this blandly seriocomic misfire from Spanish co-writer/director Roger Gual is too lazy to rise to the level of farce, too banal and insincere to work as drama. Read full review
30
The New York TimesDaniel M. GoldApr 17, 2014
Roger Gual’s half-baked film hopes to split the difference between romantic comedy and foodie delight but fails at both. Read full review
30
The DissolveDavid EhrlichApr 17, 2014
The film is so busy attending to all its people that it never manages to adequately serve any of them. Read full review
20
Village VoiceNick SchagerApr 16, 2014
A mushy concoction that's not only unfulfilling, it's gag-worthy. Read full review
12
Slant MagazineClayton DillardApr 13, 2014
There's a sinister, even insidious quality to a film that insists upon using incessant food montages not as a source of passion, but fodder for class-based self-congratulation. Read full review
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