Julie & Julia Critic Reviews

It hooks you up, happily, to your inner top chef.Read the full review

Julie & Julia proceeds with such ease and charm that its audacity -- is easy to miss.Read the full review

Julie & Julia makes deboning a duck a feminist act and cooking a great meal a creative triumph. The stakes may not be as high as the kill-or-be-killed suspense of a summer action movie, but the sauces are way tastier.Read the full review

A consummate entertainment that echoes the rhythms and attitudes of classic Hollywood, it's a satisfying throwback to those old-fashioned movie fantasies where impossible dreams do come true. And, in this case, it really happened. Twice.Read the full review

Spiced with plenty of humor and affection.Read the full review

Few movies are as delightful as Julie & Julia.Read the full review

Meryl Streep -- at her brilliant, beguiling best -- is the spice that does the trick for the yummy Julie & Julia.Read the full review

This is blissful moviemaking. Much of the pleasure we have in watching it comes from seeing Tucci and, obviously, Streep connect.Read the full review

As enjoyable as this foodie movie is, you wish it would take a deeper, more nuanced measure of the women who, in two different eras, star in the movie's kitchens.Read the full review