Food, Inc. Reviews
Top CriticThis is the kind of muckraking we should see more often.
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| Original Score: 3/5
This solidly constructed documentary aims to do for food production what An Inconvenient Truth did for global warming.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Smart, gripping, and untainted by the influence of Michael Moore.
After you see what IBP is doing to cattle, what Tyson is doing to chickens, what farmers are doing to us and what Monsanto is doing to farmers in the new documentary Food, Inc., you may never eat again.
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| Original Score: 4/5
A mind-boggling, heart-rending, stomach-churning expose on the food industry.
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| Original Score: 4/4
If you are what you eat, we are mostly genetically modified, poorly regulated, unhealthy meat byproducts generating profits for a few gargantuan corporations.
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| Original Score: B
Food, Inc. tackles a vast problem, but sends us home with glimmers of hope.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
An angry blast of disgust aimed at the American food industry.
A riveting if distressing look at the essentially unregulated American food supply.
If you're planning on seeing Food, Inc. as a date movie, make sure you have dinner beforehand.
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| Original Score: 3/4
The result is an alarming film that tackles food and freedom-of-speech issues on many fronts.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
This absorbing film looks terrific and does a superb job of making its case that our current food ways are drastically out of whack.
An invaluable primer, Food, Inc. covers a wide array of factors and concerns without becoming excessively polemical or deadeningly earnest.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
The whole thing is as subtle as a watermelon in a bowl of Cheerios but necessary, nonetheless.
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| Original Score: 3/4
If Wal-Mart, the Lucifer of multinational corporations in many liberal eyes, sees the fiscal sense in stocking an increasingly wide array of organic foodstuffs, consumer habits truly are changing.
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| Original Score: 3/4
It's not a pretty picture. But Food, Inc. is an essential one.
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| Original Score: 4/4
This review doesn't read one thing like a movie review. I just wanted to scare the bejesus out of you, which is what Food, Inc. did to me.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Kenner presents an even-tempered but nonetheless horrifying dissection of the U.S. food industry.
The film is eye-opening, shocking, and disgusting.
A powerful, muckraking documentary on the big business of what we eat.
Does for the supermarket what "Jaws" did for the beach -- marches straight into the dark side of cutthroat agri-business, corporatized meat and the greedy manipulation of both genetics and the law.
Trading on now-familiar gross-out tactics (images of corporate slaughterhouses and chicken sheds), the movie offers very little that food radicals don't already know.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Suffice it to say, after the film's disturbing glimpses inside the meat industry, along with its blunt indictment of fast food giants, you'll think twice before eating just about anything nonorganic.
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| Original Score: 4/5
An engaging and often wrenching film, Food, Inc. covers a wide range of material, including the horrific, the humorous and the exemplary.
One of the scariest movies of the year [is] Food, Inc., an informative, often infuriating activist documentary.
| Original Score: 3/5
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.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Though slickly packaged, Robert Kenner's unsparing exposé is harder to watch than any horror film.
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| Original Score: 4/5
An essential, disturbing portrait of how the food we eat in America has become a deceptively prefab, even hazardous industrial product.
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| Original Score: A
For informed locavores, director Robert Kenner's documentary on America's troubled food system covers little new territory. But the facts are still compelling enough to influence the way viewers eat, which is the film's ultimate mission.
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| Original Score: 3/6
Some of the film's scariest moments fall in X-Files territory.
It's the documentary equivalent of The Matrix: It shows us how we're living in a simulacrum, fed by machines run by larger machines with names like Monsanto, Perdue, Tyson, and the handful of other corporations that make everything.
