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Julie & Julia (2009)

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Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 212
Fresh: 159 | 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 (214) | Top Critics (45) | Fresh (161) | 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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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 Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
James Plath
Movie Metropolis

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
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Okay so from reading the back of the DVD i couldnt have expected much from this movie, but i did and it was just a bit of a disappointment! For two hours worth of movie i thought there might be a bit more going on in this movie but nope it moves along at a slow pace and at the end you just feel unsatisfied by whats

May 1, 2012
FiLmCrAzY
Film Crazy

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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
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Julie & Julia Quotes

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    1. Julia Child: You hungry?
    2. Paul Child: No.
    3. Julia Child: Good!
    – Submitted by Siddharth S (3 days 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 (3 days ago)
    1. Julie Powell: Are you back? Please be back.
    – Submitted by Diego T (6 months ago)
    1. Julia Child: If no one's in the kitchen, who's to see?
    – Submitted by Mauricio R (7 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 (9 months ago)

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