Julie & Julia (2009)

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

October 8, 2009 Full Review

Ruth Hessey

MovieTime, ABC Radio National

Top Critic

A film that's charming, funny - especially when Streep is on screen, broadcasting her superb impression of the tall, charismatic, high-pitched Child - but leaves you with a dissatisfaction with modern life that no culinary masterpiece can relieve.

September 11, 2009 Full Review

Nina Caplan

Time Out

Top Critic

The main reason for seeing this is Meryl Streep's deft comic performance as the fluttery TV chef.

August 20, 2009 Full Review

J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

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

Charlie McCollum

San Jose Mercury News

Top Critic

Julie & Julia is one of the gentlest, most charming American movies of the past decade.

August 17, 2009 Full Review | Comments (3)

David Denby

New Yorker

Top Critic

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

Michael Phillips

Chicago Tribune

Top Critic

Streep does an amazing job bringing television cooking legend Julia Child to life and making us smile every frame of the way.

February 11, 2012 Full Review

James Plath

Movie Metropolis

Half-baked comedy barely whets the appetite.

December 31, 2010 Full Review

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

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

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

Josh Larsen

LarsenOnFilm

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

January 28, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

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

Louis Proyect

rec.arts.movies.reviews

It's the 'yum' factor

December 31, 2009 Full Review

S. James Wegg

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

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

Prairie Miller

NewsBlaze

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

December 17, 2009 Full Review

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

• 1. Dorothy McWilliams: Dad, would have been happy if we had stayed in Pasadena, married Republican's & bred like rabbits!
  2. Julia Child: And why didn't we?
  3. Dorothy McWilliams: Too tall!
  – Submitted by Jane M (9 months ago)
• 1. Julia Child: You hungry?
  2. Paul Child: No.
  3. Julia Child: Good!
  – Submitted by Siddharth S (12 months ago)
• 1. Paul Child: Jules, you're being a little over-competitive don't you think?
  2. Julia Child: Well you should have seen the way those men looked at me! Like I was some frivolous housewife just looking for a way to kill time.
  – Submitted by Siddharth S (12 months ago)
• 1. Julie Powell: Are you back? Please be back.
  – Submitted by Diego T (18 months ago)
• 1. Julia Child: If no one's in the kitchen, who's to see?
  – Submitted by Mauricio R (19 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 (21 months ago)

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