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.
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Julie & Julia (2009)
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Reviews Counted:201
Fresh:150
Rotten:51
Average Rating:6.6/10
Consensus: Boosted by Meryl Streep's charismatic performance as Julia Child, Julie and Julia is a light, but fairly entertaining culinary comedy.
Theatrical Release: Aug 7, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $94.1M
Synopsis: A woman verging on thirty and frustrated in a temp secretary job takes on a yearlong culinary quest: cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child's "Mastering... [More]
Starring: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina
Director: Nora Ephron
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REVIEWS FOR JULIE & JULIA
A misguided film of differing expectations saved only by its performances.
Jan 28, 2010
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.
Jan 4, 2010
It's the 'yum' factor
Dec 31, 2009
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
Dec 29, 2009
...an easy-going, pleasant film...
Dec 17, 2009
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...
Dec 15, 2009
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.
Dec 13, 2009
Amy Adams is so meek she echoes Cynthia Nixon's waif servant in Forman's Amadeus. In fact, for a moment I thought she was Ms. Nixon, until I remembered that Amadeus was twenty-five years ago.
Dec 6, 2009
Poderia ser descrito como dois médias-metragens montados paralelamente num único longa %u2013 e o fato é que, por mais adorável que Adams seja, é a história protagonizada por Meryl Streep que segura o projeto.
Nov 27, 2009
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Oct 26, 2009
What makes this film memorable and pleasurable, above all, is the ebullient performance of Meryl Streep as Julia Child, unlikely culinary trailblazer and TV star.
Oct 8, 2009
As food movies go -- and they've become a genre of their own -- this one may be a little too rich but it's full of delights.
Oct 8, 2009
Ebullient, witty, and wonderfully warm-hearted Julie & Julia is a celebration of how to live life to the full.
Oct 8, 2009
Top CriticAnother patchy effort from director Nora Ephron who doesn’t quite get a grip on this potentially fascinating story.
Oct 8, 2009
Like a beautiful home cooked meal, Julie & Julia is not perfect by industry standards, just warm, comforting and very, very enjoyable.
Oct 8, 2009
Nora Ephron serves up a hearty silver-service banquet with a story that links the lives of two exceptional American women.
Oct 5, 2009
With great panache, it celebrates butter, bravery, and believing in oneself, all excellent things, brilliantly executed
Oct 4, 2009
It's a delicious, irresistible film whose primary exuberance and pull is created by the combined forces of Meryl Streep and Amy Adams %u2013 their second pairing after Doubt, in which they also hit the acting jackpot
Oct 2, 2009
Who cannot relate to Julia enrolling in the all-male Cordon Bleu Cooking School, crying buckets as she practises chopping mountains of onions?
Oct 2, 2009
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