Coming on the heels of Iron Man 2, filmmaker Jon Favreau delivers his most personal film yet as a chef responds to a food critic by going back to his roots in 2014's Chef.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 31, 2024

A lightweight, but enjoyable film; an amuse bouche that may leave you hungry for something more substantial but still manages to satisfy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 1, 2021

When every conflict is quashed within minutes and the predicaments barely register concern, the power to affect audiences dwindles.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 4, 2020

The first time you do something it might be fresh and risky, but the tenth, twentieth, you risk becoming repetitive and bland. "Chef" is about a creative personality trying to break free from a system that fosters this repetition and stagnation.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 8, 2020

Even in the hungriest moments, 'Chef', as a gastronomic comedy, never fails to feed our audiovisual appetite with all its idiosyncrasies. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 26, 2020

Chef is light-hearted and delicious to watch.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 20, 2019

Even with an air of triviality, as Favreau hounds us with the power of today's social networking capabilities, Chef manages to engage.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 30, 2019

The central father-son story line is not especially Michelin star-worthy, and the film as a whole will not set modern cinema ablaze.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 14, 2019

Favreau is clearly a food buff and knows his stuff, creating in Carl a character that is believable both as a successful chef and a less successful family man.

| Mar 5, 2019

Don't see Chef on an empty stomach. This is a film where the food is front and center (and it all looks great).

| Original Score: B | Feb 1, 2019

It's well-acted and more importantly, it's fun.

| Jan 29, 2019

This is a lovely, funny, wonderfully acted film. The big problem is, it's an 80-minute movie that takes two hours. By the time you get to the real story, you're out of gas.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 3, 2018

Jon Favreau has gone back to making the kind of movies he loves, and I graciously encourage him to continue his career with this amount of honesty and passion.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Nov 1, 2018

Passion oozes through this film in the same way it oozed the grilled cheese sandwich on the grill.

| Aug 21, 2018

Using the vehicle of food, the story develops, albeit in a predictable way, that will make you laugh and give you hunger pangs at the same time.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 21, 2018

It's a pacy, sometimes funny and inoffensive film in spite of Favreau.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 21, 2018

Pleasing yet somewhat predictable, this film marks a sharp departure from Favreau's various blockbuster (*Iron Man*) films into something far simpler.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 14, 2017

[Chef] is good-tasting, family friendly and down-to-earth, which is perhaps the best description of this film as it rockets to a predictable and heartwarming conclusion.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 8, 2017

Movies don't come more mouth-watering than Chef, written, directed and starring Jon Favreau.

| Jun 30, 2017

Favreau lets his character not only have flaws, but also allows him to grow without actually fixing those flaws.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 21, 2016