Forks Over Knives Reviews
Top CriticForks Over Knives is a middling documentary but a magnificent indictment.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Movies are like food. There are popcorn pictures that entertain you and the spinach movies that are good for you. In more ways than one, Forks Over Knives is a spinach flick.
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| Original Score: 3/4
A persuasive documentary on the health benefits of a whole-foods and plant-based diet.
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| Original Score: 3/4
As it stands, "Forks" is an interesting and informative health lecture that's sandwiched into a dry, repetitive documentary.
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| Original Score: 2/4
The radical notion at the heart of the acclaimed doc "Forks Over Knives" is that eating animals and animal-produced foods has costs -- on our economy, our health-care system and on ourselves.
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| Original Score: 3/5
A must-see movie that could have used a sharper edge.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Fulkerson methodically makes the case that we've been brainwashed by repetition and clever advertising campaigns.
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| Original Score: 3/4
It isn't possible to examine the scientific arguments in a movie review, but as advocacy documentaries go, this is a pretty good one.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
The bottom line: I am convinced this message is true. A plant-based whole foods diet is healthy.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Instead of preaching, why don't the nutrition Nazis figure out a way to make plant-based foods taste better? You are never going to force an entire population to live on spinach.
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| Original Score: 2/4
It lacks the authority, simple displays of hard numbers, contrary voices and the like, that we need from a documentary this provocative.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
One of the more convincing, radical and politically volatile docus to come out of the burgeoning good-food genre.
Makes a pedantic yet persuasive case for banishing meat and dairy from the dinner table.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Sound advice, perhaps, but it's presented in deadly dull fashion -- talking heads and academic charts -- reminiscent of an infomercial.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Explains in unflinching detail how we damage ourselves through our eating habits yet insists that it is within our grasp to change course.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Even if you're a junk-food junkie, this exploration of the health benefits of a ''plant-based diet'' is so scrupulously researched and argued that only a fool would ignore its findings.
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| Original Score: B+
Makes effective use of case studies and graphs to build a convincing, if inevitably simplified, argument for better living through fresh produce.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Beyond the film's awkward reliance on stock footage and explanations of basic biology is an interesting overview of the work of two men, scientist Colin Campbell and surgeon Caldwell Esselstyn.
