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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:10
Rotten:11
Average Rating:5.2/10
Consensus: What's Cooking? is well-acted, but the scenes sometimes sink into melodrama as characters scream at each other, and the movie as a whole is too lightweight and forgettable.
Theatrical Release:Nov 17, 2000 Limited
Box Office: $660,140
Synopsis: Coming together is the theme of What's Cooking?, Gurinder Chadha's funny, mouth-watering and deeply moving vision of 21st century diversity and the future of the American family -- all set on... [More]
Starring: Joan Chen, Julianna Margulies, Mercedes Ruehl, Kyra Sedgwick
Director: Gurinder Chadha
This valentine to the cultural diversity that defines L.A. is a second-tier Altman (or even Paul Thomas Anderson)a broad, accessible comedy that contrasts four large and dynamic families residing on the same street: Latino, black, Jewish, and Asian.
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Top CriticIt's a meal you may feel you've eaten before, but you nonetheless walk away stuffed and happy.
Top CriticTrades in sitcom stereotypes and crosscuts predictably from family to family as if under the misapprehension that equal time is a dramatic principle.
Top CriticPatient viewers will find that by the time the sparks start to fly and the tears to flow, the wait will have been worth it, to say nothing of the laughs.
Top CriticThe film's gluttonous overkill of food is matched only by its overacting.
Top CriticThe louder and more melodramatic the arguments get, the more overwrought the acting becomes.
Top CriticThe kind of obvious theatrics employed by Chadha do a great disservice to both her characters and her audience.
Top CriticThe writers observe each family with a knowing eye and a miraculously even hand that lends the jokes the ring of truth.
Top CriticThe brouhahas are more undercooked than the birds.
Top CriticThis film is lighthearted and smart enough to be one of the best Altmanesque ensemble comedies of the last couple of years.
Top CriticIt's nothing if not well-intentioned, but
Top CriticHas unexpected substance and is a formidable accomplishment in that it brings dimension to its nearly 40 principal characters.
Top CriticFor a canvas this broad, the portraiture is exceptionally fine.
Top CriticA glorified TV movie.
Top CriticChadha tries to keep so many balls in the air at once, she can't generate any steam in the individual stories.
Top CriticBecause the stories are so skillfully threaded together, the movie doesn't feel like an exercise: Each of the stories stands on its own.
Top CriticLike too many Thanksgiving dinners, too much squabbling really wreaks havoc on the digestion. Football, anyone?
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