80
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28 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanFood, Inc. is hard to shake, because days after you've seen it, you may find yourself eating something -- a cookie, a piece of poultry, cereal out of the box, a perfectly round waxen tomato -- and you'll realize that you have virtually no idea what it actually is.
- Essential viewing.
- 90Village VoiceVillage VoiceExpertly crafted documentary.
- 90SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirAn engaging and often wrenching film, Food, Inc. covers a wide range of material, including the horrific, the humorous and the exemplary.
- 88Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversEating can be one dangerous business. Don't take another bite till you see Robert Kenner's Food, Inc., an essential, indelible documentary that is scarier than anything in the last five Saw horror shows.
- 83The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinLike many social issue documentaries, Food, Inc. is better at addressing problems than offering solutions: its endorsement of organic food in particular feels a little flimsy. Nevertheless, it’s entertaining and fast-moving enough to make audiences intermittently forget they’re consuming cinematic health food.
- 80New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanThough slickly packaged, Robert Kenner's unsparing exposé is harder to watch than any horror film.
- 70New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinThe sheer scale of the movie is mind-blowing--it touches on every aspect of modern life. It's the documentary equivalent of "The Matrix": It shows us how we're living in a simulacrum, fed by machines run by larger machines with names like Monsanto, Perdue, Tyson, and the handful of other corporations that make everything.
- 70VarietyVarietyA civilized horror movie for the socially conscious, the nutritionally curious and the hungry.
- 70The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisTime and again the movie stops short before it really gets started, as with the debates over the big business of organic food.