Forks Over Knives Reviews
August 19, 2011
...irritation at the film's artless repetition shades into worry over its cult-like monomania.
Original Score: 2/5
August 17, 2011
I'm guessing that after every screening of "Forks Over Knives," the theater is littered with half-empty popcorn boxes and unfinished containers of soda.
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| Original Score: 2/4
August 15, 2011
Enthusiastic but scattered documentary advocates a plant-based diet to prevent and reverse chronic disease. Sure to inspire lots of post-movie chatter.
June 9, 2011
"Forks Over Knives" works really hard to bring you around to its way of thinking, but it's really preaching to the faithful.
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| Original Score: 2/4
June 7, 2011
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| Original Score: C
May 31, 2011
There's nothing that a person could learn from watching this that they couldn't learn from a magazine article.
May 26, 2011
A vegetarian infomercial in the guise of a feature documentary.
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| Original Score: C+
May 20, 2011
...a compelling argument housed in a deathly dull package; the kind of flavorless cooking that makes some folks run screaming in terror from a plate of steamed broccoli.
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| Original Score: C
May 20, 2011
Call me a contrarian, but I came out of Forks Over Knives -- a documentary advocating the benefits of vegetarianism -- ready to eat a pony out of spite.
Original Score: 2/5
May 13, 2011
[A] tightly constructed, thoroughly convincing, and dull-as-dirt documentary.
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| Original Score: 2/5
May 13, 2011
As it stands, "Forks" is an interesting and informative health lecture that's sandwiched into a dry, repetitive documentary.
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| Original Score: 2/4
May 11, 2011
Instead of preaching, why don't the nutrition Nazis figure out a way to make plant-based foods taste better? You are never going to force an entire population to live on spinach.
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| Original Score: 2/4
May 9, 2011
It lacks the authority, simple displays of hard numbers, contrary voices and the like, that we need from a documentary this provocative.
Original Score: 2.5/4
May 9, 2011
Essentially a tepid digest of the most persuasive nutritional arguments against the ingestion of flesh and dairy.
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| Original Score: 2/4
May 6, 2011
Sound advice, perhaps, but it's presented in deadly dull fashion -- talking heads and academic charts -- reminiscent of an infomercial.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4