Julie & Julia (2009)
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Reviews Counted:196
Fresh:147
Rotten:49
Average Rating:6.7/10
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: $94,125,426
Synopsis: Meryl Streep is Julia Child and Amy Adams is Julie Powell in writer-director Nora Ephron’s adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell’s Julie & Julia and My Life in France, by Julia Child with... [More]
Starring: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina
Director: Nora Ephron
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Reviews for Julie & Julia
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 4/5 |
...an easy-going, pleasant film... Full Review |
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3/4 |
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... Full Review |
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6/10 |
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. Full Review |
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C |
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. Full Review |
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 3/5 |
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. Full Review |
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3/5 |
click to read the full review on Movies for the Masses Full Review |
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3/5 |
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. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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. Full Review |
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Ebullient, witty, and wonderfully warm-hearted Julie & Julia is a celebration of how to live life to the full. Full Review |
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Another patchy effort from director Nora Ephron who doesn’t quite get a grip on this potentially fascinating story. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Nora Ephron serves up a hearty silver-service banquet with a story that links the lives of two exceptional American women. Full Review |
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4/5 |
With great panache, it celebrates butter, bravery, and believing in oneself, all excellent things, brilliantly executed Full Review |
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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 Full Review |
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Who cannot relate to Julia enrolling in the all-male Cordon Bleu Cooking School, crying buckets as she practises chopping mountains of onions? Full Review |
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There are few more civilised, civilising and generally delightful movies around at the moment than Nora Ephron's Julie & Julia. Full Review |
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4/5 |
An adorable and entertaining film that is appealing to the appetite. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Julie & Julia is a very American kind of money-spinner. Crucially, though, it is never dumb. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Deliciously funny and warming fare, for which the amazing Meryl deserves her ridiculously overdue third Oscar. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
Meryl Streep at her most relaxed and enjoyable is a main course in herself. Pity we have to share her with a side order of Nora Ephron at her least appetizing. Full Review |
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August 06, 2009:
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July 31, 2009:
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July 29, 2009:
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