Food, Inc. Critic Reviews

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San Francisco Chronicle | Amy BinacolliAdd Critic to Favorites

A mind-boggling, heart-rending, stomach-churning expose on the food industry.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Gary GoldsteinAdd Critic to Favorites

Essential viewing.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites

Food, Inc. is hard to shake, because days after you've seen it, you may find yourself eating something -- a cookie, a piece of poultry, cereal out of the box, a perfectly round waxen tomato -- and you'll realize that you have virtually no idea what it actually is.Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

I figured it wasn't important for me to go into detail about the photography and the editing. I just wanted to scare the bejesus out of you, which is what Food, Inc. did to me.Read the full review

Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites

Eating can be one dangerous business. Don't take another bite till you see Robert Kenner's Food, Inc., an essential, indelible documentary that is scarier than anything in the last five Saw horror shows.Read the full review

The Onion (A.V. Club) | Nathan RabinAdd Critic to Favorites

Like many social issue documentaries, Food, Inc. is better at addressing problems than offering solutions: its endorsement of organic food in particular feels a little flimsy. Nevertheless, it’s entertaining and fast-moving enough to make audiences intermittently forget they’re consuming cinematic health food.Read the full review

Washington Post | Ann HornadayAdd Critic to Favorites

See Food, Inc. after dinner, but see it.Read the full review

Boston Globe | Wesley MorrisAdd Critic to Favorites

The whole thing is as subtle as a watermelon in a bowl of Cheerios but necessary, nonetheless.Read the full review

Variety | John AndersonAdd Critic to Favorites

A civilized horror movie for the socially conscious, the nutritionally curious and the hungry.Read the full review

The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk HoneycuttAdd Critic to Favorites

No question, watching this film is a tough go. Horror films cause less seat-squirming.Read the full review

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