Your Fat Friend
Release Date: December 8, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
74
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
EmpireSophie ButcherFeb 13, 2024
A simple but effective study of a vital activist voice, this documentary is a powerful force for change. Read full review
80
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeFeb 11, 2024
It helps that Gordon is a dream of a subject: funny, frank and eminently likable, she challenges preconceptions and prejudices about fatness with wit and grace. Read full review
80
Little White LiesHannah StrongFeb 9, 2024
It’s a realistic, sensitive but never cloying call for kindness and empathy – something that shouldn’t feel novel in this day and age, but sadly does – and encourages viewers to reconsider how they view fatness, and in turn, fat bodies. Read full review
80
Time OutAnna SmithFeb 6, 2024
It would have been great to have seen even more myth-busting around weight and health in this doc (presumably that’s covered in her book ‘What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat’), but Gordon is a funny and frank subject: a tour of her vintage diet book collection is a treat. Read full review
70
Screen DailyNikki BaughanDec 12, 2023
This engaging, eye-opening documentary follows Gordon over six years, as a book deal forces her to give up her anonymity and she further explores her own relationships with food, her family and society at large. Read full review
50
IndieWireChristian ZilkoDec 12, 2023
Your Fat Friend succeeds in offering a nuanced portrayal of a writer and the views that made her beloved. But it’s hard to shake the feeling that the film actively infantilizes the very demographic that it wants to elevate. Read full review
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