It's such a treat to see such an endearing slice o' life in the middle of this blockbuster season. There's not a single comic book character in sight.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 5, 2015

The result is a small, unashamedly feel-good film that makes up for what it lacks in dramatic jeopardy with gentle comedy, heartwarming family scenes, ladles of food porn, and time spent among characters you like.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 7, 2014

Chef is a foodie-gasm of a film, directed by and starring Jon Favreau as a designer cook past his sell-by date, who goes on a road trip from Miami to Los Angeles to find his soul -- and soul food.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 7, 2014

Chef slips a few tasty side dishes around its meat-and-potatoes main course.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 29, 2014

Jon Favreau's enjoyable and good-natured farce is a rarity in that (as its title tells us) it takes a chef as its central character and treats his profession with something approaching respect.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 27, 2014

Here's Chef to show us all, for now and evermore, just what a vanity project really looks like. A public service, in its way.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 27, 2014

There's nourishment to be had, if you lower your expectations. But be warned: a lot of it is just watching Jon Favreau make toasties in a van.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 26, 2014

A sassy and mouth-watering concoction, bursting with flavour.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 26, 2014

Co-stars John Leguizamo and Bobby Cannavale try hard to be funny to prop up a filmmaker-star barely trying at all.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 26, 2014

Chef coasts on charm and has plenty of it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 26, 2014

Good fun and happy, filling fare.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 23, 2014

Chef is compelling, somewhat convincing and, according to many who know better than I, it's largely on trend.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 6, 2014

Favreau has assembled a terrific cast for a road trip that is joyous and revelatory, all set to a great soundtrack ...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 5, 2014

If "Chef" were a musical, you'd walk out humming the food - and you might end up doing that anyway.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 22, 2014

Chef is filled to the brim with the kind of heart and vivacity that makes up for the film's familiar storyline

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 22, 2014

Chef is so thin and bland it doesn't even inspire contempt.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 22, 2014

Best of all is Favreau. Instead of mass-producing another superhero epic, he has given the overfed public a dish of right-sized comfort food. Whatever he cooks up in the future, it will be hard to top "Chef."

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 22, 2014

The film's main theme, the restoration of the father-son relationship, while not very original, is sympathetically handled and young Anthony gives a winning performance as a sensible, loyal child who is able to teach his jaded father a thing or two.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 19, 2014

The food is so lusciously photographed you can almost smell it. And the music perfectly matches the food, sensual and spicy.

| Original Score: B+ | May 16, 2014

Jon Favreau's bouncy paean to the culinary arts wins you over in a stridently upbeat, crowd-pleasing way ...

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 16, 2014