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Julie & Julia (2009)

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Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 210
Fresh: 157 | Rotten: 53

Boosted by Meryl Streep's charismatic performance as Julia Child, Julie and Julia is a light, but fairly entertaining culinary comedy.

78

Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 45
Fresh: 35 | Rotten: 10

Boosted by Meryl Streep's charismatic performance as Julia Child, Julie and Julia is a light, but fairly entertaining culinary comedy.

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Movie Info

Nora Ephron adapts Julie Powell's autobiographical book Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen with this Columbia Pictures production starring Amy Adams as an amateur chef who decides to cook every recipe in a cookbook from acclaimed celebrity chef Julia Child (played by Meryl Streep) in order to chronicle it in a blog over the course of a year. Streep's Devil Wears Prada co-star Stanley Tucci re-teams with the actress as Child's husband. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi

PG-13, 2 hr. 3 min.

Drama, Comedy

Nora Ephron

Dec 8, 2009

$94.1M

Sony/Columbia Pictures

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Critic Reviews for Julie & Julia

All Critics (212) | Top Critics (45) | Fresh (159) | Rotten (53) | DVD (7)

Ebullient, witty, and wonderfully warm-hearted Julie & Julia is a celebration of how to live life to the full.

October 8, 2009 Full Review Source: MovieTime, ABC Radio National | Comment
Ruth Hessey
MovieTime, ABC Radio National
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The main reason for seeing this is Meryl Streep's deft comic performance as the fluttery TV chef.

August 20, 2009 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader
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Sometimes a meal can be less than perfect but still so thoroughly enjoyable that a missed ingredient here or a bit of overcooking there doesn't really matter.

August 19, 2009 Full Review Source: San Jose Mercury News | Comment
Charlie McCollum
San Jose Mercury News
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Julie & Julia is one of the gentlest, most charming American movies of the past decade.

August 17, 2009 Full Review Source: New Yorker | Comments (3)
David Denby
New Yorker
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One can't help but wonder if Ephron would've been better off focusing exclusively on Child: She's simply more interesting screen company. But Ephron's commercial touch serves her well here.

August 14, 2009 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Comment
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune
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Perhaps the most disappointing thing about Julie & Julia is the lack of dramatic closure.

August 11, 2009 Full Review Source: ReelViews | Comment (1)
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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Half-baked comedy barely whets the appetite.

December 31, 2010 Full Review Source: sbs.com.au | Comment
Don Groves
sbs.com.au

You might dismiss this as a "chick flick", but I think anyone can enjoy it. You don't have to leave your "Manly-Man" card at the door.

September 28, 2010 Full Review Source: 3BlackChicks Review | Comment
Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel
3BlackChicks Review

Two true stories are merged into one delicious treat of a film in Julie & Julia.

August 4, 2010 Full Review Source: Matt's Movie Reviews | Comment
Matthew Pejkovic
Matt's Movie Reviews

Considering the movie acknowledges it's perfectly healthy for women to enjoy both eating and sex, it qualifies as something rare in Hollywood: a feminist work of popular art.

April 16, 2010 Full Review Source: LarsenOnFilm | Comment
Josh Larsen
LarsenOnFilm

A misguided film of differing expectations saved only by its performances.

January 28, 2010 Full Review Source: Oscar Guy | Comment (1)
Wesley Lovell
Oscar Guy

Two movies for the price of one. Half is about the famous French cooking maven (and CIA agent). The other is about a blogger who launched a writing career blogging about her attempt to cook all the recipes in Child's cookbook. All it is lacking is a plot.

January 4, 2010 Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | Comment
Louis Proyect
rec.arts.movies.reviews

It's the 'yum' factor

December 31, 2009 Full Review Source: JWR | Comment
S. James Wegg
JWR Source: JWR

The human cornucopia that is Streep is carrying the energy and feel-goodness of this movie. Adams is providing her natural comic timing and sweetness to make Powell as human as possible, and she succeeds more than I would have thought possible, though Ju

December 29, 2009 Full Review | Comment
Karina Montgomery
Cinerina

A hi-carb generation gap gourmet outing contrasting elders hooked on sex, souffle and espionage with postmodern workaholic, too tired for romance youth. Though what's served up is basically Julia a la carte.

December 18, 2009 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comment
Prairie Miller
NewsBlaze

...an easy-going, pleasant film...

December 17, 2009 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

A charming and witty biographical tale of two women who were brought together as soul mates through the art of food and the joy of cooking...

December 15, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comment
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

Pretty light stuff, and the movie's only goal seems to be to convey that fluffiness, as both lives are milked for generally positive comic and romantic moments.

December 13, 2009 Full Review Source: Window to the Movies | Comment
Jeffrey Chen
Window to the Movies
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Constantly on the precipice of sickly sweet but tempered with some great performances from Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci. Full review later.

July 31, 2009
TomBowler
Thomas Bowler

Super Reviewer

I'm 50/50 on this one. I loved the Julia Childs half of the story but loathed the Julie Powell half. Meryl Streep was perfect casting, I wasn't aware of Julia Childs before this film but after watching a few clips on the internet, I totally get it (if you're interested, the British equivalent was Fanny Cradock, a

October 17, 2011
SirPant
Anthony Lawrie

Super Reviewer

Julie & Julia Quotes

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    1. Julie Powell: Are you back? Please be back.
    – Submitted by Diego T (3 months ago)
    1. Julia Child: If no one's in the kitchen, who's to see?
    – Submitted by Mauricio R (3 months ago)
    1. Paul Child: Your book is gonna change the world, your book is amazing!
    2. Julie Powell: Oh Paul, you'r the sweetest man
    3. Paul Child: Fuck them!
    – Submitted by Hanna K (5 months ago)
    1. Julia Child: These damn things are as hot as a stiff cock!
    – Submitted by Timmy C (6 months ago)
    1. Eric Powell: Lobster killer, lobster killer.
    – Submitted by Diego T (7 months ago)

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